bedridden
Example Sentences
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My mother is bedridden and has very limited use of her hands.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
Anthony Darrell Hines, 66, who has maintained his innocence for four years and is bedridden, is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee on Thursday under the same protocol that failed twelve weeks ago with Carruthers.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Woodrow Wilson lay terminally bedridden when the crash began.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
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
Now he was stuck in the middle of an increasingly acrimonious debate between the browbeating Lawrence and the bedridden Compton.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
