bedpan

Example Sentences

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She reserved her deepest attention for the orderlies who came in to change her bedpan and her sheets.

From Slate • Jun. 4, 2023

But after one of my colleagues said it looked like a bedpan, I just couldn’t unsee the resemblance.

From The Verge • May 28, 2022

The curriculum covers the practical aspects of working in a nursing home: bed-making, catheter care, using a bedpan and transferring residents from a wheelchair to a bed.

From Salon • Jan. 2, 2022

That all of it — the ancient text, the washed dish, the emptied bedpan — manifests love and death.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2021

If ever she referred to his position, she used the phrase “doctor’s assistant,” as if the process of interpretation were equal to taking someone’s temperature, or changing a bedpan.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri