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

Moore says he used a stretcher, borrowed from another funeral service, to collect a body from a local nursing home.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

If she was made to carry another stretcher, she would not make it halfway to the lift.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan