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- verb Present participle of
stretcher .
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Examples
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Trotsky and the others were busy stretchering a supine Bill into the hut, so I strolled about-no doubt in gross dereliction of duty-and enjoyed the scenery.
Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996
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The 30 minute chase wasn't a killer - they can't all be, or be they'd stretchering guys out of the place.
PezCyclingNews.com 2010
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: With some of the earliest actual hockey highlights of the young preseason, we get our first dirty hit/stretchering off at 55 seconds.
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: With some of the earliest actual hockey highlights of the young preseason, we get our first dirty hit/stretchering off at 55 seconds.
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: With some of the earliest actual hockey highlights of the young preseason, we get our first dirty hit/stretchering off at 55 seconds.
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: With some of the earliest actual hockey highlights of the young preseason, we get our first dirty hit/stretchering off at 55 seconds.
Philly SportsCast Yahoo! Sports - NHL - Philadelphia Flyers News 2010
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The 30 minute chase wasn't a killer - they can't all be, or be they'd stretchering guys out of the place.
PezCyclingNews.com 2010
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NBC television's local affiliate said there were reports of more than 100 injuries, as it showed live images of emergency responders stretchering injured passengers down the train tracks.
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Innings conceived out of genuine blazing ire are a rarity in my experience: one, Mike Gatting's brutal incendiary 79 from 81 balls at Faisalabad in 1987 had its roots in the umpiring debacle of the first Test in Lahore and preceded one of the most infamous episodes in cricket history; Steve Waugh's hundred at the Oval, effectively scored on one leg when he should never have played, was nothing less than a bloody-minded two-fingered riposte to the morons who jeered his stretchering from the ground at Trent Bridge, his calf muscle torn.
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