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
• Five years have passed since, and Shivani remains bedridden most of the time.
  — TIME, 16 May 2024
• 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
• Thompson, who was bedridden, was also stabbed to death.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2024
• 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
• The resident, who had Parkinson’s disease and was bedridden, called her sister-in-law, Jean, to ask for help.
  — Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Mar. 2024
• Vinnie will stay behind to tend to her bedridden father.
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
• Gilroy said Duvall had been in hospice and bedridden for the last few months due to complications from diabetes.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 11 July 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024