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
“You can’t be laid up like this too much longer,” she insists, and it’s a credit to Deadwyler that even in this absurdist moment, we see the fear under her armor.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 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
Now, laid up in the basement of Princeton Hospital, Mama Lessie’s expression held neither hope nor accomplishment.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
