laid-up
Example Sentences
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While I was laid up, I spent time reading on social media about former colleagues who were publicizing new books, speaking at conferences and otherwise staying in the limelight—and I felt envious.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026
Insurance companies don’t pay primary-care doctors to see patients in hospital; doctors might not know if a patient is laid up with a broken hip or beginning cancer treatment.
From Barron's • Nov. 12, 2025
The reason that it matters that many of us will be laid up with the regular old seasonal flu is something called co-infection.
From Slate • Dec. 31, 2024
The image of her laid up in the hospital, looking ready for her close-up in full makeup with one black rose on the pillow beside her, looks like a staged photo for a fashion magazine.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2024
Herbert’s representations that, if I did, I should probably be laid up and stricken useless, when our fugitive’s safety would depend upon me, alone restrained my impatience.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
