continence
Example Sentences
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The brain’s ability to regulate bodily functions, like swallowing and continence, erodes.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2025
Any chance Sally or Ed has anxiety, digestive or continence issues, hearing loss …?
From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2023
"The bed was soaked in urine. The continence pad between her legs was also soaked in urine, the door wide open, no underwear on. It was a mixed ward as well," Heather says.
From BBC • Jun. 20, 2022
Bessie should have been referred to the Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust's continence team but never was.
From BBC • Jun. 20, 2022
He employed the time in exhorting his followers--there were only fifty of them--to behave with continence to the conquered foe.
From My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis
