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gurney
noun 1name 1
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3VERB + GURNEY
pushed, strapped
GURNEY + NOUN
hall
PREP.
down, in, into, on, out
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noun
1
A stretcher having wheeled legs.
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.
name
1
A surname.
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The death row convict was strapped into the gurney in order to be given the lethal injection.
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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
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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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Tom woke up strapped to a gurney.
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They pushed the gurney down the hall.
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Sami's body was carried out on a gurney.
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