bedpan

Example Sentences

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Among the new finds are an anchor, glass bottles and a bedpan, according to a statement from the Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2024

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

He knows about Patricia in two days because she got out of the bed to go to the lavatory when she was supposed to use a bedpan and collapsed and died in the lavatory.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt