Stretcher is an English word with synonyms like framework or frame. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Stretcher in a sentence
Related words
Stretcher meaning
- Someone or something that stretches.
- A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.
- A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.
Synonyms of Stretcher
Using Stretcher
- The main meaning on this page is: Someone or something that stretches. | A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person. | A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.
- Useful related words include: framework, frame, framing, mechanical device.
- In the example corpus, stretcher often appears in combinations such as: on stretcher, stretcher and, the stretcher.
Context around Stretcher
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 7 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Stretcher
- In this selection, "stretcher" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, two, shoe, field, bearers, outside and instead stand out and add context to how "stretcher" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include on a stretcher and a field stretcher. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "stretcher" sits close to words such as accrued, angled and angst, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with stretcher
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A stretcher is wheeled into the area. (7 words)
He was taken off on a stretcher. (7 words)
Put simply, America’s Team needed a field-stretcher. (9 words)
Huggins started at right-back alongside Hume on the opposite flank as the Black Cats lost to Coventry City at the Stadium of Light last Saturday in the Championship but was forced off on a stretcher with what looked to be a serious leg injury. (45 words)
As casualties mounted, Japanese snipers began to take aim at stretcher bearers, knowing that if two stretcher bearers were injured or killed, more would have to return to replace them, and the snipers could steadily pick off more and more Marines. (41 words)
Rescuers from Turkey and across Europe cheered and clapped as Mark Dickey, a 40-year-old experienced caver, emerged from Morca cave in southern Turkey’s Taurus Mountains strapped to a stretcher at 12:37 a.m. local time Tuesday. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
As casualties mounted, Japanese snipers began to take aim at stretcher bearers, knowing that if two stretcher bearers were injured or killed, more would have to return to replace them, and the snipers could steadily pick off more and more Marines.
After she regained consciousness 10 minutes later, she was taken away on a stretcher to an undisclosed hospital in Umuahia by officials of the Nigerian Red Cross and members of the Medical Committee of the Alex Otti Inauguration.
A stretcher is wheeled into the area.
Bomba said the firefighters proceeded to provide initial treatment to the victim before bringing him out of the ditch using a stretcher.
CNN Turk showed rescue workers carrying her to an ambulance as she waved, strapped into a stretcher and wearing a neck brace.
Discarded soldiers’ clothing and a stretcher outside a stabilization point near Kreminna.
Emergency radio traffic showed police raced to the scene and began evacuating houses on both sides of the fire building, requesting one stretcher during those operations.
Footage from a police body cam shows Finley telling Earl L. Moore Jr to "get up" before he is loaded onto a stretcher in a prone position.
He picked up a wooden shoe stretcher and struck me on the head – always the head, I learned through experience – and it really hurt.
Her father, Sidney Davidson, created a portable clothing press and a stretcher with wheels for paramedics.
He said he slipped it into his coat pocket and headed into the hospital, where he planned to give it to a supervisor but in the confusion instinctively put it on Kennedy's stretcher instead.
He was taken off on a stretcher.
Huggins started at right-back alongside Hume on the opposite flank as the Black Cats lost to Coventry City at the Stadium of Light last Saturday in the Championship but was forced off on a stretcher with what looked to be a serious leg injury.
It is possible that even after having provision to accommodate the stretcher elevator in the drawing, a bigger elevator is supplied and termed as a service elevator, just to save some cost.
It read: 'Our medical staff have confirmed that the Hatters captain suffered cardiac arrest on the pitch, but was responsive by the time he was taken off on the stretcher.
I was placed in a hallway on a stretcher with a number of other patients.
One person was pictured being taken away from the shore on a stretcher.
On Sunday, May 21, NorthStar EMS will be doing a “stretcher push” from its Sugarloaf base in Carrabassett Valley to Franklin Memorial Hospital.
Put simply, America’s Team needed a field-stretcher.
Rescuers from Turkey and across Europe cheered and clapped as Mark Dickey, a 40-year-old experienced caver, emerged from Morca cave in southern Turkey’s Taurus Mountains strapped to a stretcher at 12:37 a.m. local time Tuesday.
Common combinations with stretcher
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- on stretcher 77×
- stretcher and 23×
- the stretcher 14×
- stretcher in 9×
- stretcher with 9×
- stretcher after 7×
- stretcher to 6×
- to stretcher 6×
- stretcher at 5×
- in stretcher 4×