How to Use bed rest in a Sentence

bed rest

noun

• The doctor prescribed bed rest for a month.
• You're supposed to wear socks all the time and be on bed rest.
  — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
• So that led to two years of bed rest and six surgeries.
  — Tamara Wilson, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019
• Also, your back and legs ache, like you’ve been on bed rest.
  — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2017
• Our daughter, a close friend of the bride, is on bed rest in the last two weeks of pregnancy.
  — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 29 July 2022
• The doctor gave them strict orders to give the animal two weeks of bed rest.
  — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 18 Oct. 2017
• And then my husband was in an accident, and on bed rest, and the grass kept growing.
  — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 12 June 2021
• In the summer of 1912, Church began having heart trouble and was put on bed rest.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2018
• The wife and mother of two was put on bed rest while pregnant with her daughters, which caused her to lose a lot of her strength.
  — Vagney Bradley, Houston Chronicle, 16 Jan. 2018
• Doctors found a large hematoma in her abdomen during surgery, and she was placed on bed rest for six weeks.
  — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 27 Mar. 2018
• After 12 weeks of bed rest, Boemer gave birth to LynLee at full term, on June 6.
  — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 21 Oct. 2016
• Dear Carolyn: My sister is 25 weeks pregnant and was just put on bed rest.
  — Carolyn Hax, Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2018
• Doctors have over the years prescribed bed rest, pills and, in extreme cases, surgery.
  — Daisy Yuhas, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2017
• Due to some complications, Teigen was placed on two-week bed rest last week.
  — Mary Honkus, PEOPLE.com, 14 Sep. 2020
• He’s on bed rest for most of the day, a rough reality for a guy who used to play football and likes to stay active.
  — Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Dec. 2021
• From there, she was put on bed rest and has remained there, waiting patiently to get to 28 weeks.
  — Essence, 9 Aug. 2021
• Her doctor tells her to abandon her classes for bed rest.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Dec. 2017
• Still, Levi’s growth during bed rest meant his heart and lungs functioned well outside.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 8 May 2021
• At 25 weeks and four days, she was ordered on bed rest and given steroids to help the babies' lungs develop.
  — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
• Smith is pregnant, due in late December, and her doctor just put her on bed rest.
  — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2020
• Bounds was discharged from the hospital the next day and instructed to get bed rest and quarantine for two weeks, the suit states.
  — Zak Koeske, chicagotribune.com, 11 Aug. 2020
• Her doctors ordered her on to a strict bed rest that required a hospital stay.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2021
• The third delivered a baby girl, but demanded 23 weeks of bed rest.
  — Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
• Strict bed rest can involve staying in bed almost all the time, with very little movement.
  — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2020
• After 19 weeks of bed rest before their arrival, the triplets arrived eight weeks early, Randy says.
  — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 22 Feb. 2022
• Her fiancé, now husband, Alexis Ohanian, stepped up to the plate to take care of their daughter while Williams was on bed rest.
  — Essence.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• MedlinePlus says if the separation of the placenta from the uterus is small, then your provider may put you on bed rest to help stop the bleeding.
  — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 28 Oct. 2020
• Like Cindy, their daughter, Jackie, had a high-risk pregnancy and ended up on bed rest.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2024
• After a miscarriage in 2014, Christina conceived again and was put on bed rest.
  — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 25 June 2018
• Studies have shown that living for a significant amount of time in microgravity can have the same kinds of effects on the body as being confined to bed rest, including a loss of bone and muscle mass.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2023

Last Updated: 24 Sep 2024