emergency room
Americannoun
-
emergency rooms
plural
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
At the urging of a coworker, he finally visited an urgent care facility and, upon arrival, was told that he immediately needed to go to an emergency room.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
An emergency room visit led to a cyclospora diagnosis, which he blamed on Taco Bell Doritos Locos Tacos and Beefy 5-Layer Burritos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
But in the race to take on Feely, Amish Shah, an emergency room physician, is leading Marlene Galán-Woods, a former broadcast journalist whom Democrats’ House campaign arm had endorsed.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026
The resulting dizziness or delirium can trigger a visit to the hospital emergency room.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026
They check me in to the same emergency room.
From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
