hospitalize

Example Sentences

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When he gets unruly, they discharge or hospitalize him.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2024

The girl’s mother had previously told The Associated Press that agents had repeatedly ignored her pleas to hospitalize her medically fragile daughter, who had a history of heart problems and sick cell anemia.

From Washington Times • May 21, 2023

It would give outreach workers, city hospitals and first responders, including police, the discretion to involuntarily hospitalize anyone they deem a danger to themselves or unable to care for themselves.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2022

Perhaps people grew complacent because last season, despite fears of a “twindemic” that would simultaneously hospitalize both flu and Covid-19 patients, flu infections actually plummeted.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2022

I cannot get her out of this steel block unless I hospitalize her, perhaps operate.

From Sinister Paradise by Williams, Robert Moore