How to Use ambulatory in a Sentence

ambulatory

1 of 2 adjective
  • The office will even make house calls for the non-ambulatory.
    — Kyle Whitmire, al, 3 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • There are three other patients at the home, only one of whom is ambulatory.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 8 Feb. 2023
  • An ambulatory surgery center will open in the building early next year.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Their son, the Steens learned, experienced many of the same things his ambulatory peers might have.
    — Matthew Jacobs, HollywoodReporter, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Women greatly outnumber men, and no one except for us and the staff is ambulatory.
    — David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021
  • So, to a degree, Udonis was the last ambulatory big man standing.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Yelenda was slightly lethargic, had a right sided head tilt and was non-ambulatory.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 27 Feb. 2026
  • One non-hospital option that may be lesser known to people is ambulatory surgery centers.
    — Anthem Blue Cross California, Daily News, 10 June 2026
  • The top four defensive teams are still ambulatory in the NBA.
    — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2022
  • 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
  • Some quit, retired, or sought jobs at home care agencies, ambulatory surgery centers, and medical offices.
    — Andy Miller, ajc, 19 Dec. 2022
  • 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 biggest gains were in social assistance and ambulatory health care services.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • That feeling passed and the child grew into an ambulatory creature whose artifacts Irvin used to print cyanotypes.
    — Washington Post, 2 July 2021
  • Auburn’s Patrick Sweeney won the ambulatory shot put with an indoor state meet record 22 feet, 8 inches.
    — al, 4 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Any pharmacy that bills Medicare for ambulatory services will be able to participate in the free test program.
    — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Cleary said the deal does not lower staffing requirements on fire trucks, a change Lightfoot explored to reduce spending and ramp up the city’s ambulatory services.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
  • The outpatient building will include clinics and an ambulatory surgery center.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Jan. 2026
  • The outpatient building will include clinics and an ambulatory surgery center.
    — Samuel O’Neal 26, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Fox combats his symptoms, such as paralysis of his facial muscles, through medication and trains to preserve his ambulatory skills.
    — Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025

ambulatory

2 of 2 noun
  • An ambulatory setting is less costly than a hospital setting.
    — Melanie Evans, WSJ, 20 Feb. 2017
  • 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
  • For example, Ohio could choose the ambulatory care standards from one benchmark plan and the preventive services from another.
    — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 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
  • 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
  • Its argument was that the nine ambulatory surgery centers already in Northern Kentucky had plenty of capacity.
    — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • With Herro ambulatory, there was the easier-to-digest possibility of moving Norman Powell for draft capital and then turning to the scoring of Herro to compensate.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 24 Jan. 2026
  • 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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