bedridden

Example Sentences

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Some elderly residents are bedridden and get no water unless a neighbour carries it up several flights in the dark.

From BBC • May 22, 2026

Quadriplegic and bedridden in a prefabricated home, 36-year-old Li Xia can only move one finger and one toe -- yet he runs a high-tech farm in southwestern China using sensors, cameras and a computer.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

This insight opens the possibility of developing medications that replicate the benefits of exercise, offering new hope for older adults, bedridden patients, and individuals with chronic illnesses who face a higher risk of fractures.

From Science Daily • Jan. 27, 2026

Over the next few days both pilots were bedridden, vomiting, with diarrhea, and tremors in their hands and legs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

Friends provided Corrie a “retirement” house in Orange County, California, but of course, even bedridden and for the last five years unable to speak, Corrie never stopped witnessing to God’s love.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom