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

She said children were being failed in areas where there was no dedicated children's continence service.

From BBC • Sep. 3, 2025

Jodie Gosling, MP for Nuneaton and who chairs the all-party parliamentary group for bladder and bowel continence care, said constipation had fallen low on the list of priorities facing local council and integrated care boards.

From BBC • Sep. 3, 2025

Any chance Sally or Ed has anxiety, digestive or continence issues, hearing loss …?

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2023

The materialist prescribes temperance, continence, sobriety, in order that life may be long, and comfortable, and free from disease.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks