How to Use homebound in a Sentence

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• Stephanie Searcy bumped up her house’s Wi-Fi speed and logged into her job alongside her homebound teenagers.
  — Tamar Hallerman, ajc, 25 Mar. 2022
• The Covid-19 pandemic, when many wealthy clients were homebound, added further strain.
  — Trefor Moss, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
• After many months of homebound life, getting the ball rolling was the best exercise ever.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2021
• Most of these residents speak Spanish, and many are homebound.
  — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
• Those who are homebound and signed up will also receive their meals that day at their residence.
  — cleveland, 13 Nov. 2022
• In-home Covid-19 vaccination, as is available in New York City, may help reach those who are homebound or disabled.
  — Julia Raifman, STAT, 3 July 2021
• Each pie donated will underwrite a week of meals for a homebound senior.
  — Alex Kushel, Sun Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2022
• Residents who are homebound can call a help line to get water delivered, but Bownes said the process takes too long and isn’t reliable.
  — Michael Phillis, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• Americans, and their wallets, largely remained homebound in large swaths of the country.
  — Paul Wiseman, Star Tribune, 10 Nov. 2020
• Many older people are homebound, or don’t know how to find and make vaccine appointments on the computer.
  — Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Nov. 2021
• For Arizona resident Stephen Sample, 66, who rode his bike to the event, the gathering is a break from the mostly homebound routine of the past several months.
  — Fox News, 8 Aug. 2020
• The La Mesa Chamber of Commerce invites the community to help 16 homebound seniors — 12 women and four men.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2022
• About half of homebound Americans 70 and older don’t have a computer, according to surveys, and more than half have not used email or the internet in the past month.
  — Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
• Clemente says that the new, mostly homebound, normal is a ripe time for women to experiment with going braless, and for brands like Free Reign to flourish.
  — Frances Solá-Santiago, refinery29.com, 7 Aug. 2021
• Heritage brands such as Goldfish, Oreos and Doritos also saw a resurgence as homebound consumers stocked their pantries with treats.
  — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
• By February of 2023, the student was still out of school, and had yet to receive any homebound services or proper adjustments to her health and behavioral plan.
  — Rebecca Griesbach | [e-mail], al, 14 Sep. 2023
• McClelland and O’Neill didn’t always intend to pursue a homebound life.
  — Chris Moody, Anchorage Daily News, 16 May 2023
• The car industry turned to using bulk carriers, which carried goods like grain, soybeans, and coal on their outbound journeys, and cars on their homebound trips.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 12 Jan. 2023
• Sawyer thinks that may be because some elderly residents are homebound and can’t easily go out to a vaccine site.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2021
• In a time when even the most ardent travelers are homebound, many transportation companies are on life support.
  — Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou, Quartz at Work, 11 June 2020
• To save those restaurants and give those homebound families some space, city planners did something that had been unthinkable, or at least undoable.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 30 Dec. 2021
• However, that doesn't mean that the wildlife manager, who travels often to Africa for work, and Thurston, a bank marketing manager, have any plans to be homebound.
  — Aili Nahas, PEOPLE.com, 11 Aug. 2021
• People who are homebound or rarely outside may have low levels of vitamin D as a result of not being able to get sun exposure.
  — USA Today, 9 June 2020
• UpStart Kitchen served as a meal production center for people who are homebound or food insecure throughout the spring and summer.
  — Sarah Hauer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Sep. 2020
• For homebound Americans, the TV bonanza has been a life-saver; for many critics, a bounty of new opportunities to hail...
  — Richard Zoglin, WSJ, 18 Sep. 2020
• Milwaukee County also serves senior meals at more than a dozen sites and provides Meals on Wheels for homebound residents.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 28 July 2022
• Over its 25-year history, Sunday Supper has raised more than $14 million to fund meals delivery to homebound New Yorkers who can no longer cook for themselves.
  — Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 20 Mar. 2023
• Mary Alice was a nurse’s aide for homebound patients; Joseph was a sharecropper and later a dragline operator for the state highway department.
  — Nathaniel Rich Stacy Kranitz, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• On Earth, homebound researchers have used simulated Martian soil, as Mr. Mendoza did, to learn about crop growth on that otherworldly world.
  — Sarah Scoles, New York Times, 27 Nov. 2023
• During the pandemic, many homebound workers adopted pets.
  — Matt Keenan, Kansas City Star, 30 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024