How do you use Ambulance in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like car or auto, plus the exact meaning.
Ambulance meaning
- An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital.
- A mobile field hospital.
- A vehicle used for the transportation of dead people, typically to a mortuary.
Synonyms of Ambulance
Using Ambulance
- The main meaning on this page is: An emergency vehicle designed for transporting seriously ill or injured people to a hospital. | A mobile field hospital. | A vehicle used for the transportation of dead people, typically to a mortuary.
- Useful related words include: car, auto, automobile, machine.
- In the example corpus, ambulance often appears in combinations such as: ambulance service, air ambulance, an ambulance.
Context around Ambulance
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27 words
- Position in the sentence: 14 start, 6 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ambulance
- In this selection, "ambulance" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, air, london, town, service, care and olivia stand out and add context to how "ambulance" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include west midlands ambulance service said, 415 air ambulance flights in, air ambulance, ambulance services and midlands ambulance. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ambulance" sits close to words such as clinical, praised and singing, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ambulance
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Ambulance and air ambulance also attended the scene. (8 words)
Fire, ambulance, and the air ambulance have been called. (9 words)
Both the and London Ambulance Service attended the incident, along with an air ambulance. (14 words)
It was planned to get an ambulance, an ambulance, a British ambulance, but they’ve not succeeded to bring this ambulance on this day and they didn’t want to wait longer…. and they’d been determined to do it …. and then they’ve been caught by the state. (49 words)
Tri-Town Ambulance Chief Ben Retmier told those gathered at West Tisbury Fire Station No. 2 for a meeting of the Tri-Town Ambulance Committee Wednesday night that the ambulance service he leads is growing and needs room to do so. (41 words)
I hope it never happens that you or a loved one is in an ambulance slowed down by selfish drivers who wish to get to their destination and in doing so, delay the ambulance at the hospital. (37 words)
Example sentences (20)
It was planned to get an ambulance, an ambulance, a British ambulance, but they’ve not succeeded to bring this ambulance on this day and they didn’t want to wait longer…. and they’d been determined to do it …. and then they’ve been caught by the state.
Ambulance drivers may be trained in radio communications, ambulance operations and emergency response driving skills. citation Ambulance care assistant Ambulance Care Assistants (ACAs) have varying levels of training across the world.
Tri-Town Ambulance Chief Ben Retmier told those gathered at West Tisbury Fire Station No. 2 for a meeting of the Tri-Town Ambulance Committee Wednesday night that the ambulance service he leads is growing and needs room to do so.
Ambulance wait times at all Kern County hospitals is one of the reasons Hall Ambulance is not meeting ambulance response times Kern County has set, according to the company.
They carried placards some of which read; 'Kids matter we need kids ambulance', 'Drones cannot carry sick kids we need ambulance', 'You may one day need an ambulance'.
Ambulance and air ambulance also attended the scene.
Ambulance Services Minister Gabrielle Williams and chief executive of Ambulance Victoria Jane Miller joined VU Vice-Chancellor Adam Shoemaker and VU paramedic students and graduates to welcome the initiatives.
An ambulance worker, called Alex, had found Jazz in the back of her ambulance during a shift.
A report had been made of a stabbing in the area and officers were joined by the London Ambulance Service as well as London’s Air Ambulance.
A spokesperson for West Midlands Ambulance Service said: "An ambulance and paramedic officer were sent to the scene where, on arrival, crews discovered two cars had been involved in a collision.
Assistance was provided by the Renville County Sheriff’s Office, Olivia Police Department, CentraCare Ambulance, Olivia Ambulance, Olivia Fire Department, North Memorial Air Care, and MnDOT.
Both the and London Ambulance Service attended the incident, along with an air ambulance.
Edward began his ambulance career in 2002 as an Emergency Medical Technician at London Ambulance Service.
Fire, ambulance, and the air ambulance have been called.
For the Air Corps there were 415 air ambulance flights in their operations with the National Ambulance Service as well as 49 inter hospital transfer flights and a large number of fire fighting call outs.
I hope it never happens that you or a loved one is in an ambulance slowed down by selfish drivers who wish to get to their destination and in doing so, delay the ambulance at the hospital.
Police, fire crews, the ambulance service and air ambulance were called to the scene at around 11.50pm last night (August 27).
Rich Malin, a paramedic at West Midlands Ambulance service said: “The ambulance service have been amazing, they’re letting us use their facilities and they couldn’t have been more helpful.
Skoworodko, who owns the ambulance company serving the town of Wakaw, Sask., and surrounding area, said a combination of factors is responsible for the periodic gaps in provincial ambulance service.
Standing behind our EMS heroes is a vast network of support staff dedicated to supporting Hall Ambulance's core mission of responding an ambulance to those needing medical aid.
Phrases with ambulance
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with ambulance
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- ambulance service 68×
- air ambulance 52×
- an ambulance 43×
- the ambulance 42×
- ambulance and 19×
- ambulance to 13×
- ambulance was 13×
- ambulance services 12×
- midlands ambulance 12×
- london ambulance 10×