stretcher

Example Sentences

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Videos shared by Ukrainian emergency services on Telegram showed rescue workers and civilians carrying a woman out of an apartment building on a stretcher, her body covered in dust.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 2, 2026

Kone, though, despite suffering an injury that has ended his World Cup, lifted his thumb to the crowd as he was taken off on a stretcher.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 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

Earlier that evening my friend Yossel and I had carried an elderly woman on a stretcher to the ghetto infirmary, but we had made a dangerous miscalculation.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson