How to Use stretcher in a Sentence

stretcher

noun
  • They carried her out to the ambulance on a stretcher.
  • When the stretcher turned, a man could be seen with his arms down by his side.
    — Nikiya Carrero, CBS News, 3 Jan. 2026
  • At least three stretchers were taken to the scene.
    — Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Kim rushed home to find Kris lying on a stretcher with a neck brace.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • He was placed on a stretcher and moved to the ambulance.
    — Kellie Love, Hartford Courant, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Kippes passed out and was carried out of the arena on a stretcher.
    — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 16 Mar. 2026
  • At least three of the victims were taken away on stretchers.
    — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 11 Dec. 2025
  • In one frame, the video pans to a woman being wheeled away on a stretcher.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The researchers also placed a board across a chain of blocks to make a stretcher.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
  • All four were seen lying on stretchers placed on the floor in an overfilled room.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Others were laid out on stretchers in dorm lobbies.
    — Kelly Meyerhofer, jsonline.com, 3 Feb. 2026
  • There was no ambulance or even a stretcher.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Video from the evening showed a man in a red shirt being carried out of the venue on a stretcher.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2023
  • She was then seen being carried out of the station on a stretcher.
    — Mike Damiano, BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2023
  • He was loaded onto a stretcher and was carted off the field.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 12 Oct. 2025
  • The workers put her on a stretcher and lowered her to the street using a crane.
    — Safak Timur, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The discovery of part of a stretcher in the grave is evocative.
    — Michael E. Ruane, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2023
  • He was then placed in a stretcher and lifted up by the rescue chopper.
    — David Chiu, PEOPLE, 13 Jan. 2026
  • At least one person was lifted from the wreckage in a stretcher.
    — Michael Goldberg and Rogelio Solis, Anchorage Daily News, 20 June 2023
  • Reid was later placed on a stretcher as paramedics transferred her from the hotel.
    — Edward Segarra, USA Today, 24 Nov. 2025
  • When all the pieces are in place — which could take two years — Lolita will be placed on a stretcher.
    — Gene Johnson, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Some of the injured were carried on stretchers to waiting cars.
    — NPR, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Three paramedics were seen walking Reid, who was on a stretcher, out of the hotel.
    — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Manuel Ugarte was taken off the pitch on a stretcher in the game's 44th minute.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 27 June 2026
  • Shortly after, he was rolled onto his side and then stood up and seated on a stretcher.
    — Deborah Laverty, Chicago Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The dark green stretcher that awaited him was one of several still covered in blood.
    — Natalia Yermak Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2022
  • People ran to the beach, carried it on a piece of driftwood like a stretcher, and brought it back to the ocean.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Then Simons left the game on a stretcher just past the hour after hurting his knee.
    — Jay Harris, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2026
  • One person was seen being taken on a stretcher out of the second house, to which the fire spread.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The moose was tranquilized and removed from the house on a stretcher, revived and set free.
    — CBS News, 23 Nov. 2022

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