gurney

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A stretcher having wheeled legs.
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Examples

“The death row convict was strapped into the gurney in order⟳ to be given the lethal injection.”

“Yet her vision has narrowed strangely (good, for she was in a medical facility, if she were having a hemorrhage or a stroke it could not be happening at a more convenient time) so that she was able to see⟳ little in the fluorescent-lit space except the man who lay⟳ motionless on a gurney beneath the strongest of the lights.”

“I’m pretty sure I didn’t actively steer⟳ towards the tree, but… I don’t know⟳. I just remember⟳ that wave⟳ of despair and then the EMTs pulling me out of the car and putting me on a gurney.”

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