How to Use gurney in a Sentence

gurney

noun
  • Hunt briefly shook, gasped and raised his head off the gurney.
    — Arkansas Online, 11 June 2025
  • Each was told to stand next to a piece of tape by the gurney.
    — Dakin Andone, CNN, 10 Mar. 2021
  • The driver opened the back door and pulled out a gurney.
    — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 27 June 2026
  • On the gurney, blood ran from her nose and covered half of her face.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 11 Jan. 2021
  • His mother’s body is on a gurney, zipped up in a black vinyl body bag.
    — David Bezmozgis, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2025
  • The child was seated on a gurney outside of a spa, the footage shows.
    — Colleen Shalby, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2023
  • Fire paramedics can be seen taking Rees’ nephew in a gurney.
    — Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Try to explain that if your kid’s lying on the gurney.
    — Tom Wolzien, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2026
  • One of the women pushes a wide gurney against one wall and steps back, the video shows.
    — Penny Weaver, Arkansas Online, 15 June 2026
  • His beard, scraggly, fell away from his chin to his chest while his white hair hung off the top of the gurney.
    — Kirsten Fiscus, Nashville Tennessean, 22 May 2025
  • The torso on the gurney was being prepared for just such a sale.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The station obtained video that appeared to show the boy on a gurney.
    — NBC News, 27 Apr. 2022
  • Walls was strapped to a gurney and mostly covered by a blanket.
    — Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 19 Dec. 2025
  • An ambulance drove up, and the man was strapped to a gurney and taken away.
    — John Ismay Kenny Holston, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Her body, still in the box on the gurney, lay directly in front of the retort.
    — Maggie Jones, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Bills staff ran onto the field and Harris was strapped to a gurney or flat board.
    — Jolie Lash, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Their big brother, Aza, rode on the gurney with them, with mom and dad close behind.
    — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 17 Oct. 2016
  • By the time the paramedics arrived, the girl was up and about, able to settle herself on the gurney.
    — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Jordan, on the gurney, seizing and rolling onto his side.
    — Emily Brindley health Reporter, Dallas Morning News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The hospital was so busy she was treated on a gurney in the hallway.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Oct. 2020
  • That sled can be put onto a gurney to take the patient in and out of the helicopter.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 12 Jan. 2026
  • The scene about the man there alone on the gurney with the single tear running down his face has never left me.
    — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 3 May 2018
  • The guards place Brooks on a gurney covered by exam paper.
    — Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The man fumbled in his tote, then laid a rumpled shirt, some pants, and a pair of cloth shoes on the foot of the gurney.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Meanwhile, a clergy member was at the foot of the gurney beside him.
    — Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The video also shows that Suarez wasn’t calm on the gurney, Pena said.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2022
  • Deschamps-Braly stood next to Abby on the gurney, and stroked her arm.
    — Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The bags line the morgue hallway, on gurneys and the floor, spilling into an outdoor courtyard.
    — David S. Cloud, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Still in his parka and snow pants, Beckett is wrapped in a soft blanket and placed on a gurney.
    — Mark Shanahan, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2018
  • There are rollers on the gurney and sometimes on the floor of the cremation unit so the casket can slide with ease.
    — Caren Chesler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Mar. 2018

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