How to Use bedridden in a Sentence

bedridden

adjective
  • Beth is bedridden, Duane said, but is up every once in a while.
    Megan Friedman, Country Living, 6 Oct. 2017
  • The injuries left him bedridden, blind, deaf and unable to breathe or eat on his own.
    Staff Report, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Since the surgery that was cut short, Cannon has been nearly bedridden.
    Mike Anthony, courant.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • His dad, who was a cop, don’t take any stuff from anyone type of guy, all of a sudden is bedridden.
    Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • That would explain why Steve was bedridden for three days prior to his death.
    Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Alec Baldwin then surprised with a cameo, playing a bedridden Trump who was very pleased with the memo.
    Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, Billboard, 4 Feb. 2018
  • Myrtle Briggs was bedridden in the final years of her life.
    Molly Guthrey, Twin Cities, 7 Dec. 2019
  • The room where Wise was bedridden for years now is an altar room crowded with statues and relics.
    Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2019
  • While his father was bedridden, Bryce Brown was coping an injury to a disc in his back.
    James Crepea, AL.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The court documents said Harwell and Henry are now both bedridden and unable to work on the case.
    NBC News, 14 Nov. 2020
  • Shelly Streck was getting paid in cash to take care of an 85-year-old man's bedridden wife in Enid, Oklahoma.
    Matthew Martinez, star-telegram, 16 May 2018
  • Among them was 88-year-old Maria Salazar, who is bedridden with Parkinson’s disease.
    Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2022
  • As a young boy, George was diagnosed with polio and bedridden for four months.
    Jamie Swinnerton, Houston Chronicle, 16 Sep. 2019
  • By the novel’s end, Hermione has suffered a breakdown that leaves her bedridden and delirious for three months.
    Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2022
  • For the next few weeks, the couple and their daughter, Danielle, 19, were all bedridden in separate rooms of their house in Chalmette.
    Katy Reckdahl, NOLA.com, 17 Oct. 2020
  • The world has moved on, but time has stood still for Jeanine Kunkel, who remains like a newborn, helpless and bedridden.
    Laura Reiley and Jacob Bogage, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Bowie had been bedridden with pneumonia through the battle, and met his death fighting from his cot.
    David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The trip also meant Marcus had to leave behind his sick mother, who was bedridden, which tore at him.
    Whitney Friedlander, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2023
  • Patients with severe cases are bedridden for years and rarely move or speak.
    Mike Mariani, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2019
  • One 6-year-old boy had to be pushed around the hospital in a stroller, another girl was bedridden and unable to even sit up.
    Megan Molteni, STAT, 21 Dec. 2022
  • For four days last year, when Rivers was sick with a cold and bedridden, Love forgot to take her medication.
    Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Melanie Andrews was 10 years old and bedridden with sepsis when she was introduced to the world of Shakespeare.
    Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2021
  • She was killed instantly and Patrick was bedridden for two years after.
    Olivia Truffaut-Wong, refinery29.com, 22 June 2021
  • George Dunham and his siblings were able to care for their bedridden parents during the later stages of their lives.
    Dallas News, 17 Aug. 2022
  • The crash claimed yet another life when the flames spread to a house across the yard from Ms. Hrebnyeva and an elderly, bedridden man was burned to death.
    New York Times, 30 May 2022
  • Vinnie will stay behind to tend to her bedridden father.
    Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
  • The actor ate very little in recent weeks and could no longer walk because the disease had weakened him and left him bedridden.
    Diana Garcia, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2023
  • In March 2013, she was referred to the hospice program with a normal life expectancy of six months or less and was soon bedridden.
    idahostatesman, 14 Apr. 2018
  • The man, identified only as Jermaine, was climbing to the 15th floor to save his bedridden mother.
    Amir Vera, CNN, 22 July 2019
  • Kris's former broken neck caused spinal issues that left her bedridden — and a doctor came to the home to examine her.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2023

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