How To Use Stretcher In A Sentence

She rode in back of the station wagon, probably on a wheeled stretcher, with a battery-run respirator on her chest.
The NDTV network broadcast footage from the scene, about 170km southeast of New Delhi, showing debris strewn across the tracks and police officers carrying bodies covered with sheets on stretchers.
After climbing to 15,000 feet over four days, she had to be taken off the mountain on a stretcher in a night-long rescue. Knuckleballs of Kilimanjaro: Dickey Plots Ascent
On to the stretcher with him, strapping on, doubled back along the landing, started down the stairway. RIOT
Carling strained a thigh muscle in Dunedin and Bayfield ended that match on a stretcher with a neck seizure.

He was then taken into the defendants' cage on a stretcher, wearing sunglasses and covered by a green blanket. The Sun
He was stretchered off with knee - ligament damage and looks destined to be sidelined for months.
No one will truly believe he is injured today unless he is stretchered away with a limb hanging off.
In using this ingenious wire stretcher, he stapled his wire to post number one, carried the length past post number two, looped the chain around post number three, having the chain long enough so that he might tauten the wire and hold the crankhandle steady with his knee or left arm while he drove the holding staple in post number two. Hiram the Young Farmer
The society bills its guide as a ‘must-read for all armchair supporters’ and claims that even the most over-enthusiastic spectator should not need to be stretchered off mid-match.
There are also at least two paramedics by the pitch and stretcher bearers are on standby. The Sun
Going to the address of the reg. owner of a car in which the young female passenger who looked like rag doll on the ambulance stretcher is almost certainly dead and the driver nearly so. The Love Shack, Baby. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
We would probably translate that as the stretcher is not yet here; I struggled looking for a way para ir a escuchar su corazón to go to hear her heart con las manos confundidas no me mantengo en pie with my hands confused (not working, not able to help me) Amor y romanticismo 7
The stretcher configuration is also significant, for the placing of the medial stretcher well to the front, rather than mid-way between front and back legs, is entirely novel.
He walked down the gangplank and he pretty much walked on his own and he was then taken off on a stretcher, an eye witness told the Boston Herald. Liverpool owner John Henry taken to hospital after fall on his boat
He added: 'If the stretcher bar was missing the rail would have been left flapping about. The Sun
The young striker - once much-tipped in these parts - had an absolute mare before ending the game being stretchered off.
The full weight of rescue workers will act as a counterbalance while the stretcher is hanging on the rope. Times, Sunday Times
A video posted on Facebook by Syrian pro-democracy activists showed what it said were five dead young men lying on stretchers in Sanamein as men weeped around them. Troops open fire as protests explode across Syria
The resistance of the innocent man caused the "whipper" to call in three other sturdy blacks, and, in a few minutes, the victim was fastened upon the stretcher, face downwards, his clothing removed, and the strong-armed white negro-whipper standing over him with uplifted whip. My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People
The fans were incensed as the Frenchman lay still before a stretcher appeared then quickly disappeared.
As two stretcher bearers tried to rescue the victim, they triggered a bomb. Times, Sunday Times
They found two nuts missing from the front stretcher bar of the points and insisted that they should be immediately replaced.
After airplane landing, saw from the porthole the first picture is, a combat transport stops in there, downward unloads a bunch of bunch of tent and the military stretcher.
After receiving treatment for 10 minutes, he was stretchered off the field to be replaced by Gamble.
Here, the canvas leaves part of the vertical stretcher bars of blond wood exposed at the left and right.
The Service stretcher, while soundly built and serviceable, is for this very reason a somewhat cumbrous load even when empty. War Story of the Canadian Army Medical Corps
In the bell-loft, with other lumber, was an old 'stretcher,' very much less luxurious than the _brancard_ that is used in Paris for carrying the sick and wounded. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
He was given oxygen in the ring then carried to an ambulance on a stretcher. Times, Sunday Times
She was carried off the track on a stretcher.
The rocker's stiles, arms, and stretchers were made from unmilled hickory sticks, occasionally with the bark left on.
He was finally stretchered off by paramedics and taken to Leeds General Infirmary.
She was in agony and had to be carried away on a stretcher to an ambulance after her ski jump went disastrously wrong. The Sun
He then drew an axe from the sack on his back and walked down to the trees to make a wooden stretcher on which to tie the deer's carcass.
On a stretcher they are carrying a mannequin, which is doubling as a wounded man. Times, Sunday Times
One source put the total at 100 people carried out on stretchers or injured, another claimed 30 people were in intensive care in the days after the raid.
In the pocket of a hanging coat was thrust a nickelled rod from a patent trousers-stretcher, so that it pointed out into the room. The Sins of Séverac Bablon
A winchman was lowered from the helicopter and along with paramedics and coastguards assessed her condition before moving her onto a stretcher and airlifting her to hospital in Scarborough.
We came at last to a bit of quaggy road, which one man, by making a dash as over thin ice, might possibly have got through; for six men and a stretcher this was impossible.
Patients spent about 220 hours, the equivalent of nine days, on stretchers as ambulances were "ramped" while the hospital was at capacity Sunshinecoastdaily.com.au: The Sunshine Coast Daily
(The warp and weft are at forty-five degrees to the stripes, because the stretcher is rotated.) James Elkins: How to Look at Mondrian
Ambulance services were quickly overwhelmed, and groups of people helped victims clutching bleedings wounds, and others were carried to private vehicles in makeshift stretchers fashioned from rugs or bits of debris. Quake in New Zealand kills at least 65, traps more; shears ice from glacier
One crude stretcher stood next to the other," he wrote, "and all were occupied by moaning, sweating, deathly pale men, who were gasping for breath in the thick atmosphere of excrement and iodoform. 'Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization'
Swans fans gave the Palace striker a standing ovation as he was taken off on a stretcher. The Sun
They tied a brace around his neck and slid a stretcher beneath him. Times, Sunday Times
Flemish bond uses alternating headers and stretchers in each course.
Six strong Mexican men carried my makeshift stretcher through the village out to the little pier and placed me on the ponga (little boat) to make the 45 minute trip to the next village where a ambulance awaited my arrival. Lavoir - French Word-A-Day
The full weight of rescue workers will act as a counterbalance while the stretcher is hanging on the rope. Times, Sunday Times
The lights went out for her, her body quivered the stretcher is not yet here; I struggled looking for a way to go to hear her heart with my hands not able to help me Amor y romanticismo 7
But 20 minutes later he was again stretchered off with a suspected cartilage problem.
At any time of the day or night, a tall RAF corporal would be seen helping to carry a stretcher containing an injured soldier into the tent.
It is why the wounded who leave the field on stretchers invariably receive consoling applause from all quarters, friend and foe. Times, Sunday Times
Wearing an oxygen mask and giving the thumbs-up to the cameras, Murphy was stretchered out of the conference hall.
Canero, an adventurous presence on the left flank, caught his studs in the turf and was stretchered off.
When he collapsed it, he was stretchered off with a neck injury that, thankfully, revealed no fractures.
The men carrying the stretchers were gaunt and loose limbed. A FEW SHORT NOTES ON TROPICAL BUTTERFLIES
Figure 21 illustrates four different glove stretchers that often do double duty as glove powder dispensers and hand measurers.
Other papers showed the rows of stretchers of dead children, their relatives bending over them.
With cameras clicking, Wills rappelled down the face of a two-hundred-foot cliff while attempting to steady a stretcher filled with ballast to simulate a human body. William and Kate
The decision having been taken to clean and conserve the painting, it was removed from its frame and stretcher, rolled up, and transported to the conservation studios.
He was treated on the pitch before being stretchered off and receiving further treatment, including mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and extra oxygen.
But when they moved him into the buckboard using a hard board stretcher, he shuddered violently and passed out.
Twenty-two team members attended and stretchered the woman from the fell with a suspected leg-fracture.
The stand, with its baluster legs and serpentine stretcher, is also japanned and similar to other European designs of this period.
The anesthesia care provider administers anesthesia while the patient remains on the stretcher.
“One crude stretcher stood next to the other,” he wrote, “and all were occupied by moaning, sweating, deathly pale men, who were gasping for breath in the thick atmosphere of excrement and iodoform.” Human Smoke
She was in agony and had to be carried away on a stretcher to an ambulance after her ski jump went disastrously wrong. The Sun
They were like bed frames, or big painting stretchers.
It captured dramatic thermal images of her being stretchered to the sickbay. The Sun
To get Dor to a hospital, the doctors would have to carry him out on the antigrav stretcher they had brought with them, since shielding prevented transport into or out of the Senate Chamber. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
Reassemble the leg and stretcher, adding carpenter's wood glue before inserting the stretcher into the hole.
Finally, a team of firemen arrived and lifted me off my bed and on to a stretcher. The Sun
When the stretcher arrived, the four sailors carefully placed the injured sailor on the stretcher and transported him safely to sickbay for definitive medical care aboard ship.
Within minutes, the injured were being carried away on stretchers, clad in thermal blankets to keep them warm against shock.
In just the second game of his comeback from a nine-week lay-off with a torn cruciate ligament, the Great Britain prop was poleaxed in the build-up to the final try of the game and had to be helped from the field after refusing a stretcher.
The boat - stretcher caught him fairly on the nose -- it was the bo's'n -- and the mutiny began. CHAPTER X
It is a welcome and thoughtful reprieve from endless stretcher bond, used in almost all other new buildings in the area.
The other two stretcher bars were fractured and bolts were missing. Times, Sunday Times
This done, I caused Simpson to unstep the gig's single mast and lay it fore and aft in the boat, with the heel resting upon and firmly lashed to the small grating which covered the after end of the boat between the backboard of the stern-sheets and the stern-post, while the head was supported by a crutch formed of two stretchers lashed together and placed upright upon the bow thwart, the whole being firmly secured in place by the two shrouds attached to the mast-head. A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron
The added work of chiseling mortises and cutting tenons for the joined stretcher, rather than setting a turned stretcher into drilled holes, seems to suggest a decorative aspiration rather than a structural need.
A number of exercises were executed, including dropping the winchman on the afterdeck, transferring lifeboat crew to the helicopter, and a stretcher exercise.
They had found him and put him into some kind of gurney stretcher kind of thing, and then American coalition forces arrived immediately thereafter on site. CNN Transcript Jun 9, 2006
She was taken out on a makeshift stretcher, which was like a ladder? Times, Sunday Times
A Flemish bond is created by courses of alternating stretchers and headers, with every header centered over a stretcher above and below.
At the eye hospital I was shoved on a stretcher in the crowded emergency room surrounded by hostile soldiers. Times, Sunday Times
The stretcher's on, and he looks like he's concussed.
For the next two hours the dead and wounded were carried out of the club on stretchers. Times, Sunday Times
I recall the reminiscence of a 17-year-old medical aidman, whom I quoted in one of my books, describing the island of Peleliu: 'I am carrying this guy on the stretcher and he's been dead maybe a day and a half but already his body is covered with flies and maggots. Home | Mail Online
Periodically, ambulance drivers come with their bright orange stretcher contraptions, bearing sedated patients whose pale faces look tiredly out over white sheets and blankets, a small passel of family members bringing up the rear.
She takes out with her a piece of canvas larger than her stretcher and only loosely attached to it. Improve Your Landscape Painting
He was stretchered off and taken immediately to hospital.
Since then most canvas paintings have been attached to lightweight wooden frameworks or stretchers.
The artist might attempt to disguise them by extending her unprimed canvas beyond the stretcher, suggesting an alternative reading of the work as art object.
A stretcher with a life support system was rushed towards the emergency room.
But as his stretcher is wheeled past the crime scene, he knows this is no random act of violence. The Pain Nurse by Jon Talton: Book summary
Alex fidgeted impatiently as Miles was brought forth on a stretcher, ignoring the welfare of the Base Coordinator completely.
The bricks are laid in alternate pairs of headers and stretchers.
Walls build using the traditional stretcher bond are just a half brick wide.
Orazio did not say what he spent on linseed oil, which he could have bought for five or six pence a pint, or on his canvas and stretchers, but they were not very costly in relation to artists' fees.
It takes nearly 20 minutes to strap her into the stretcher and carry her to the helicopter through the snow. Times, Sunday Times
The night was tinged with sadness for City by the sight of Cooper being stretchered from the field in the dying embers.
No amount of eye rolling or shoulder shrugging can change their minds, and so whiplash collar firmly around her neck, and safely secured to a stretcher, the driver is airlifted from the highway to the hospital -- across the street from the accident site. Christine Negroni: The Not-So-Hilarious World of Helicopter EMS
Some stretchers were being carried to the lift which goes down to the deck of the hospital-ship, on which an officer was ticking off each wounded body after a glance at the label tied to the man's tunic. Now It Can Be Told
I put the stretcher under my arm and walked off toward the Big Dipper, in the direction of the tent.
Except for the legs and stretchers, which were beautifully carved and turned, the chairs were completely covered with upholstery.
Finally, wall works measuring about 34 by 26 inches with softly rounded corners featured Iris prints on leather mounted on canvas stretchers.
A group of nurses and soldiers in camouflage carrying stretchers rushed towards the scene.
She was given a neck brace and taken to the hospital on a stretcher.
Bystanders and ambulance workers made crude stretchers to carry the wounded to vehicles to take them to nearby hospitals.
After they were carried out on stretchers, paramedics checked them before they were taken to the Royal Bolton Hospital for treatment for minor injuries and shock.
He led two injured colleagues down a stairwell and then returned to help take another out on a stretcher.
It's a miracle how they carry those stretchers but they get through even though it takes ten men all day to move one stretcher case back three or four miles.
Gilliam is known primarily as a Color School painter who ‘liberated’ the canvas from its stretcher.
There were not even stretchers or wheelchairs to carry the sick and infirm.
Ambulances are hideously slow to arrive and , when they do to lack basic equipment, like stretchers.
A cacolet is a kind of stretcher-bed with a rail round it, and a hood over the top to protect the occupant from the sun. With Our Army in Palestine
The national agency responsible for transportation safety made the decision after testing the chutes with mannequins and weighted stretchers last fall.
When Hannah opened her eyes, she found herself lying on a stretcher, with sirens screaming loudly in her ears.
Chairs imported from New England, particularly Boston, influenced the design of this chair, especially in its stretchers, relatively light seat rails, and yoked crest.
He was stretchered into an ambulance and taken to hospital where he will remain overnight.
Despite the damage, the painting is on its original stretcher, has not been relined and is probably in its original frame.
The paintings were then stretched on good quality lightweight stretchers.
They tied a brace around his neck and slid a stretcher beneath him. Times, Sunday Times
Two soldiers entered the room, accompanied by two orderlies and a stretcher. IN LOVE AND WAR
Stretcher-bearers pushed past Jack as he stood blinking at the top of the tunnel, breathing the damp air.
This is what the stretcher guy was planning on happening, but as the poet Burns is wont to say, the best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley (well, he's dead now, but he did used to say it).
However, he was stretchered off later after a challenge for a loose ball.
As an egalitarian, I liked the appellate tribunal's manner of lumping together porters, stokers, stretcher bearers, and doctors.
In this country, they acted as coastguards, stretcher bearers and couriers. Times, Sunday Times
Disabled people could also be lowered down the chutes more slowly in stretchers.
As an egalitarian, I liked the appellate tribunal's manner of lumping together porters, stokers, stretcher bearers, and doctors.
Along with the chopper crew, the team practiced stretcher loading, winching a casualty into the aircraft and landing zone safety.
But the paramedics are qualified to deal with any emergency and their Renault Scenic car with lights and sirens is stocked with the same kit as an ambulance, minus a stretcher.
Stretcher-bearers pushed past Jack as he stood blinking at the top of the tunnel, breathing the damp air.
Women are carried in bloody, make-shift stretchers from bombed marketplaces.
As two stretcher bearers tried to rescue the victim, they triggered a bomb. Times, Sunday Times
The fate of the regiment's boy trumpeters – to be left behind when their regiment sailed to war – came directly from the first-person accounts, as did the information that bandsmen might be assigned to be stretcher bearers. Archive 2009-12-01
I was stretchered off and they said it was a classic case of an anterior cruciate ligament injury.
She was clearly in tremendous pain as she was carried off the track on a stretcher.
When the ambulance finally came, they put her on a stretcher and drove her to the hospital, with us sitting beside her as the car bumped along.
One boy lay swathed in bandages on a stretcher, his severed leg beside him.
The headers also fall on center of stretchers and head joints in adjacent courses.
The Germans fired at the stretcher bearers who tried to reach them. THE GUARDSMEN
The rescue effort fell to ‘dalesmen and doctors’ who set off at 7pm that night to navigate the punishing terrain carrying lanterns and stretchers.
Even the swelled side stretchers are flatter and less graceful and seem to be the product of an efficient, and therefore presumably busy, shop.
The aircraft provided a stable platform with ample room for around 70 litters (stretcher beds) and specialist medical teams to carry out life-saving work.
An ambulance officer brought a stretcher for the injured woman.
The bricks are laid in alternate pairs of headers and stretchers.
The curd mat is transferred into a cookerstretcher of his own design, which heats the curd and continues to drain off liquid.
Below the sills of these bedrooms are stone stretchers that extend from one column base to the next.
The patient groaned as he was lifted onto the stretcher.
A group of paramedics hoisted me up onto a stretcher and then into an ambulance.
Boston was producing leather-back chairs during this period with very bold ball-ring-ball turned front stretchers.
The injured man was carried on a stretcher by firefighters up a steep embankment to a waiting ambulance.
I've never been the real limber type, nor much of a stretcher.
The gadrooned flattened torus moulding, shown on the shelf or footrest of the stand in the engraving also appears on the stretchers of the Blenheim stands.
All the victims remained conscious, but at least one had to be taken by stretcher to an ambulance. Times, Sunday Times
She was taken away on a stretcher with an oxygen mask on. Times, Sunday Times
A cheer went up as Joe was lifted on a stretcher and carried from the van into the house.
Ashy's victory was not however, without a price as one of the team's players was stretchered off the pitch after picking up a back injury in the fourth chukker of the game.
Investigators found that one of three stretcher bars, which keep rails a uniform distance apart, was missing from the faulty points. Times, Sunday Times
The youngsters volunteered to carry the stretcher - with as little disturbance as possible - in very difficult conditions.
They photographed officers and other ranks, young and old; infantrymen, cavalrymen, sappers, gunners, engineers, military police, chaplains and stretcherbearers. Times, Sunday Times
They turned and pulled up behind them what appeared to be a lightweight metal stretcher, which in turn was being pushed carefully from below by two other men, arms upstretched to keep their load as level as possible. The Priest
The following year, a surgeon told her her career was over after she was stretchered off the track at the world championships with a ruptured Achilles tendon.
Its seat is comprised of tongue-and-groove pieces, while the leg stretchers are doweled into place.
These looms were created from wooden stretcher bars, like the ones used to stretch painting canvas.
He saw the two whale-boats land on the beach, and the sick, on stretchers or pick-a-back, groaning and wailing, go by in lugubrious procession. Chapter 3
The anesthesia care provider administers anesthesia while the patient remains on the stretcher.
Right-winger Alan Linton was the first casualty when he was stretchered off with a double break to a leg after 16 minutes.
Rick saw her coming and stepped between her and the paramedics who had just loaded a semi-conscious Jason onto a stretcher.
Ashy's victory was not however, without a price as one of the team's players was stretchered off the pitch after picking up a back injury in the fourth chukker of the game.
There are also at least two paramedics by the pitch and stretcher bearers are on standby. The Sun
It is the skill of the craftsmen who produced the stretchers and frames that now becomes the subject of the viewer's interest.
It captured dramatic thermal images of her being stretchered to the sickbay. The Sun
Other stretchers or gurneys have weight limits and may not be of sufficient dimension to accommodate the patient.
It is why the wounded who leave the field on stretchers invariably receive consoling applause from all quarters, friend and foe. Times, Sunday Times
One needed a title, however, to appreciate the majesty of the tall, ostentatious chairs with upholstered, haughty-looking backs and stretchers reinforcing the legs.
Six canvas stretchers were to be bought at a cost not exceeding ￡5.
Since then most canvas paintings have been attached to lightweight wooden frameworks or stretchers.
She was lifted back onto the stretcher and another march began.
She was clearly in tremendous pain as she was carried off the track on a stretcher.
The two ambulance attendants quickly put Plover on a stretcher and got him into the ambulance.
As the paramedics lifted his body onto the stretcher and applied a neck brace Kim was held back by the police.
He was stretchered off the pitch with a broken leg.
Thing is, that Tahoe they're using as an ambulance got stuck on the street, so we're going to have to manhandle the stretcher in. ABSOLUTE ZERO
After a couple minutes, her tense body relaxed and she wiggled in the stretcher to get more comfortable.
With scant regard for the convention of the stretcher as support, Farber's paintings are conceived as bifacial and may be installed recto or verso.
He was stretchered off with a twisted knee during yesterday's game at Tannadice and is unlikely to play for Rangers again this season.
A winchman was lowered from the helicopter and along with paramedics and coastguards assessed her condition before moving her onto a stretcher and airlifting her to hospital in Scarborough.
As the captives escaped, residents and troops ran through the streets, and the wounded were carried off on stretchers.
Hostages who were still conscious were led to safety, while others had to be carried on stretchers into waiting ambulances.
The full-back, who was cautioned for the tackle, required attention for fully four minutes before being removed from the field on a stretcher.
A glove stretcher makes gloves larger.
Alex fidgeted impatiently as Miles was brought forth on a stretcher, ignoring the welfare of the Base Coordinator completely.
On arrival at the military hospital, a team of stretcher bearers met wounded soldiers on the helicopter pad.
The England hopeful was taken off on a stretcher after just nine minutes with an ankle injury. The Sun
The Germans fired at the stretcher bearers who tried to reach them. THE GUARDSMEN
He first paints a black monochrome square at the center of a large piece of raw canvas that has been conventionally stapled to a stretcher.
It was also decided that all Marines would carry their sleeping bags, an extra bandolier of small arms ammunition, and extra stretchers - initially to carry ammunition and then casualties.

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