sickroom
Example Sentences
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Advice about food preparation for "invalids", "convalescents" or "the sickroom" would commonly take up an entire section of cookbooks.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2022
To prevent infected air from seeping out of the sickroom, Fox suggests wedging towels in the gap under the bedroom door.
From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2022
Her mother read Hans Christian Andersen stories as a vaporizer sent puffs of yellow steam into the sickroom.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
During a sickroom visit by Alicia and her mother, Lady Grillyer, the latter suspiciously demands, “ ‘What is the matter with the Baron?’
From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2021
Meg had a quiet rapture, and then brooded over the letter, while Jo set the sickroom in order, and Hannah “knocked up a couple of pies in case of company unexpected”.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
