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

But when a sparrow gets in the sickroom, his mother sends him for a broom to sweep it out the window.

From Slate • Jul. 24, 2020

Aunt Loma arrived to fix our breakfast and then took over the sponging so we could eat, but we all carried our plates to the sickroom.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns