How to Use ambulatory in a Sentence

ambulatory

1 of 2 adjective
  • The Heat need to be in win-now mode, and that means that the earners have to be ambulatory.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 15 May 2021
  • One of the victims — a man who had been leading the chants — was bleeding from the head but ambulatory.
    Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2023
  • The office will even make house calls for the non-ambulatory.
    Kyle Whitmire, al, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Sweeney also had a 28-06 throw in the ambulatory shot put.
    Al.com Reports, al, 5 May 2022
  • The top four defensive teams are still ambulatory in the NBA.
    Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2022
  • Auburn’s Patrick Sweeney won the ambulatory shot put with an indoor state meet record 22 feet, 8 inches.
    al, 4 Feb. 2023
  • There are three other patients at the home, only one of whom is ambulatory.
    Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 8 Feb. 2023
  • So, to a degree, Udonis was the last ambulatory big man standing.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 1 Dec. 2022
  • All the residents appeared to be ambulatory and were able to evacuate on their own, with the exception of the one man who was injured, Hill said.
    Andres Picon, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The pool got a major upgrade, including a new lift system that takes non-ambulatory students from the locker rooms all the way into the pool.
    Elena Ferrarin, Chicago Tribune, 20 Dec. 2022
  • After Jack Evans, the vice president, died in February at age 95, no one else was ambulatory enough to take his place.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Its ambulatory surgery center in Greenfield opened this week and now is doing about 50 surgeries a day.
    Guy Boulton, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7 May 2020
  • An ambulatory surgery center will open in the building early next year.
    Steve Brown, Dallas News, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Six-year-olds burn a lot of energy, but Hannah is non-ambulatory and can’t tire herself out through walking and running.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 30 June 2020
  • Women greatly outnumber men, and no one except for us and the staff is ambulatory.
    David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021
  • Among ambulatory care providers, adoption was at 52%, and at 40% in long-term post-acute care facilities.
    Casey Ross and Katie Palmer, STAT, 25 Nov. 2021
  • He was diagnosed in 1985 but remained ambulatory with the help of crutches.
    Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 18 July 2021
  • Scales and Tales also added that Todd's wife, Amy Christopher, used her nursing background to begin first aid as the trainer waited for ambulatory care.
    Naledi Ushe, PEOPLE.com, 17 Aug. 2021
  • The Bengals bolstered their offensive line to make sure Burrow will still be ambulatory at age 30.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 5 Sep. 2022
  • That feeling passed and the child grew into an ambulatory creature whose artifacts Irvin used to print cyanotypes.
    Washington Post, 2 July 2021
  • As usual, the fewer questions asked the better, starting with how much blood someone can lose from multiple stab wounds and still be ambulatory.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Plus, Omer Yurtseven was ambulatory in the locker room pregame.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2023
  • In one vintage sketch, Rocco scoots around a strip mall dressed as a bulky Tetris L-block — barely ambulatory, mostly blind — while a cameraman soaks in the distressed reactions of the bystanders.
    Luke Winkie, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Due to outdated maintenance of ambulatory care, the old building (which dates back to the early 1970s) was deemed unsuitable and costly to maintain.
    Kalyn Dunkins | Kdunkins@al.com, al, 20 Sep. 2022
  • At the same time, UH also added new sites, both hospitals and ambulatory locations.
    Ginger Christ, cleveland, 29 Oct. 2019
  • But there also was a common element to those two Heat losses: the Celtics’ defense requires an opponent to be at its best, and to be fully ambulatory.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 26 May 2022
  • Another of two brothers in Guatemala who traveled together — the ambulatory one hooking his arms through that of the other, a double-amputee.
    Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 26 Oct. 2020
  • The ambulatory surgery center has since reopened, but is now staffed through a joint venture with another company.
    Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2022
  • The hospital installed a solar array in the hospital’s parking lots, and is fast tracking the building of an ambulatory surgery center.
    Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Instead, Moore asked: If someone isn’t ambulatory, and an autonomous vehicle arrives to take them to their doctor’s appointment, who is getting that person out of the house and into the car?
    Lexi Pandell, WIRED, 31 Aug. 2023
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ambulatory

2 of 2 noun
  • Construction on the cathedral began in 1160 under France's Bishop Maurice de Sully, beginning with the church's choir and ambulatories, at the end of the structure close to the altar.
    Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 16 Apr. 2019
  • For example, Ohio could choose the ambulatory care standards from one benchmark plan and the preventive services from another.
    Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Newton-Wellesley also runs a 10-year-old breast-feeding support group that meets at its nearby ambulatory care center.
    John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
  • Calpers changed its benefits five years ago to nudge patients toward the cheaper ambulatory option, a spokesman said, and will expand its plan to include a dozen more surgeries starting in January.
    Melanie Evans, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Reedy spends part of his time away from the Buccaneers and during the offseason working as a driver for a company that provides wheelchair transportation and ambulatory services that pays him $11 an hour.
    Geoffrey C. Arnold, OregonLive.com, 19 May 2017
  • Its argument was that the nine ambulatory surgery centers already in Northern Kentucky had plenty of capacity.
    Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Shares of Envision, which also provides post-acute care and ambulatory-surgery services, have fallen 23% over the past year amid questions about its billing for emergency services and disappointing performance.
    Aisha Al-Muslim, WSJ, 11 June 2018
  • Patients who are ambulatory and can walk themselves will naturally need a different level of attention than someone who is in critical care.
    Rob Verger, Popular Science, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Boone defends his claims of fraud with a specific formula, dividing the number of ambulatory, handicapped adults in Connecticut by the state’s population.
    Vinny Vella, Courant Community, 5 Sep. 2017
  • An ambulatory setting is less costly than a hospital setting.
    Melanie Evans, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2017
  • Cross Country has more than 9,500 contracts for staffing with hospitals, physician practices, outpatient and ambulatory-care centers, public and charter schools and government offices.
    Marcia Heroux Pounds, Sun-Sentinel.com, 14 June 2017
  • UnitedHealth has said Optum aims to provide primary care and ambulatory services in 75 markets, representing about two-thirds of the U.S. population.
    Anna Wilde Mathews, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2017
  • The most common type of disability was ambulatory at 7.9%, where people have difficulty performing activities such as walking or climbing stairs.
    Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Optum’s growth was tied to its OptumRx pharmacy-benefit management unit and its OptumCare ambulatory-care business, among other factors.
    Anna Wilde Mathews, WSJ, 18 July 2017
  • Many of those patients are non-ambulatory, have seizure disorders, behavior problems, mental illness, visual or hearing impairments, or a combination and all must qualify financially for Medicaid assistance.
    Stephanie Innes, azcentral, 20 June 2019
  • Construction on the cathedral began in 1160 under France's Bishop Maurice de Sully, beginning with the church's choir and ambulatories, at the end of the structure close to the altar.
    Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 16 Apr. 2019
  • For example, Ohio could choose the ambulatory care standards from one benchmark plan and the preventive services from another.
    Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2018
  • Newton-Wellesley also runs a 10-year-old breast-feeding support group that meets at its nearby ambulatory care center.
    John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2019
  • Calpers changed its benefits five years ago to nudge patients toward the cheaper ambulatory option, a spokesman said, and will expand its plan to include a dozen more surgeries starting in January.
    Melanie Evans, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2017
  • Reedy spends part of his time away from the Buccaneers and during the offseason working as a driver for a company that provides wheelchair transportation and ambulatory services that pays him $11 an hour.
    Geoffrey C. Arnold, OregonLive.com, 19 May 2017
  • Its argument was that the nine ambulatory surgery centers already in Northern Kentucky had plenty of capacity.
    Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Shares of Envision, which also provides post-acute care and ambulatory-surgery services, have fallen 23% over the past year amid questions about its billing for emergency services and disappointing performance.
    Aisha Al-Muslim, WSJ, 11 June 2018
  • Patients who are ambulatory and can walk themselves will naturally need a different level of attention than someone who is in critical care.
    Rob Verger, Popular Science, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Boone defends his claims of fraud with a specific formula, dividing the number of ambulatory, handicapped adults in Connecticut by the state’s population.
    Vinny Vella, Courant Community, 5 Sep. 2017
  • An ambulatory setting is less costly than a hospital setting.
    Melanie Evans, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2017
  • Cross Country has more than 9,500 contracts for staffing with hospitals, physician practices, outpatient and ambulatory-care centers, public and charter schools and government offices.
    Marcia Heroux Pounds, Sun-Sentinel.com, 14 June 2017
  • UnitedHealth has said Optum aims to provide primary care and ambulatory services in 75 markets, representing about two-thirds of the U.S. population.
    Anna Wilde Mathews, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2017
  • The most common type of disability was ambulatory at 7.9%, where people have difficulty performing activities such as walking or climbing stairs.
    Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Optum’s growth was tied to its OptumRx pharmacy-benefit management unit and its OptumCare ambulatory-care business, among other factors.
    Anna Wilde Mathews, WSJ, 18 July 2017
  • Many of those patients are non-ambulatory, have seizure disorders, behavior problems, mental illness, visual or hearing impairments, or a combination and all must qualify financially for Medicaid assistance.
    Stephanie Innes, azcentral, 20 June 2019

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