stretcher

Example Sentences

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In another, a limp man partly covered in a blanket was carried away in a stretcher.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026

Women in green scrubs and hairnets were lined up to greet her as her stretcher rolled out of the elevator.

From Salon • May 27, 2026

AFP photographs showed mourners carrying Haddad's body, wrapped in a Hamas flag, on a stretcher from the ruins of a building.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

Videos from the scene appear to show a helicopter landing close to the Miami marina with emergency teams carrying at least one injured person on a stretcher.

From BBC • May 9, 2026

Representative Henry Barnhart of Indiana was carried in on a stretcher from a Washington, DC, hospital after an appendectomy; he stayed just long enough to vote.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling