incontinent
Example Sentences
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He fell into a coma, became incontinent and quadriplegic.
From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026
Speaking to BBC News NI, her daughter Fiona McAreavey said her mum, who was immobile and incontinent, lay on a trolley in a hospital corridor for 15 hours.
From BBC • Jan. 15, 2026
He is no longer incontinent and does not need to take the dozens of pills he was on each day.
From BBC • May 10, 2023
She remembered waiting for hours in triage, crying and incontinent, until she gave up and headed to a third hospital, which gave her antibiotics for a urinary tract infection.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2023
When Khubchand, his beloved, blind, bald, incontinent seventeen-year-old mongrel decided to stage a miserable, long- drawn-out death, Estha nursed him through his final ordeal as though his own life somehow depended on it.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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