incontinent
Example Sentences
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He fell into a coma, became incontinent and quadriplegic.
From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026
"I was getting incontinent, so I needed to go to the toilet a lot, like every like five minutes, sometimes even like less than that," Wesley said.
From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025
Competent lawyers absolutely would not put him on the stand anyway — the man is emotionally incontinent and too proud of his crimes to avoid confessing.
From Salon • Nov. 16, 2023
He is no longer incontinent and does not need to take the dozens of pills he was on each day.
From BBC • May 10, 2023
When Khubchand, his beloved, blind, bald, incontinent seventeen-year-old mongrel decided to stage a miserable, long- drawn-out death, Estha nursed him through his final ordeal as though his own life somehow depended on it.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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