How to Use incontinent in a Sentence

incontinent

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• Already incontinent, now Benton couldn’t walk or lift himself out of a chair or bed.
  — Jessica Ravitz, ajc, 25 Apr. 2020
• An incontinent resident had an accident, and Ms. Mangayan would have to clean it up.
  — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2018
• By the time he was discharged more than three months later, he was partially paralyzed in the legs and permanently incontinent.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 19 May 2017
• Listen at one point or another, many of us have dated a gross guy who is verbally incontinent and causes a wildfire fight amongst lady friends.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 26 Sep. 2020
• Plummer’s brush with the industry left her incontinent.
  — Matthew Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• It was parked under a giant tree that apparently housed a family of incontinent birds, because my windshield was covered in poop.
  — Charlotte Andersen, Redbook, 23 May 2017
• All were in bed or wheelchairs, diagnosed with memory loss or dementia and were incontinent.
  — Flkeysnews.com, miamiherald, 5 June 2017
• At Hacienda, most of the residents are incontinent and wear diapers.
  — Stephanie Innes, azcentral, 13 Feb. 2020
• The new president replaced his predecessor’s incontinent spending with a programme of austerity, backed with a $4.2bn loan from the IMF.
  — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
• In another recent case, a car dropped off at First Step Communities an elderly woman who was incontinent and had soiled her clothing.
  — Cynthia Hubert and Ryan Lillis, sacbee, 21 Feb. 2018
• Nonskid rugs are great in homes with golden-age dogs that may become incontinent because of kidney disease or as a side effect of heart medication, to name just a couple of potential causes.
  — Kim Campbell Thornton Andrews McMeel, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020
• The government also says its banks will be run more efficiently, to prevent further incontinent lending.
  — The Economist, 28 Oct. 2017
• Working in disguise, the crew kidnaps big-pharma execs, injecting them with a solution that renders them impotent, incontinent and bald.
  — Neely Tucker, The Seattle Times, 10 Dec. 2017
• Meet Medha Godbole, 58, whose 60-year-old husband, Sanjay, is paraplegic, nonverbal and incontinent.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2017
• Despite fetal surgery, many children with spina bifida are incontinent.
  — Denise Grady, New York Times, 24 June 2019
• Over a period of days, this patient, who had heart disease, diabetes and moderate cognitive impairment, stopped walking and became incontinent and profoundly lethargic.
  — Judith Graham, CNN, 23 Apr. 2020
• In September, a Philadelphia jury awarded $57 million to a Pennsylvania woman who required three operations to remove the implants which left her chronically incontinent.
  — Sam Wood, Philly.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• Representative Rice believes that her constituents are emotionally incontinent children who can be manipulated with dishonest rhetoric and cheap emotional ploys.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 13 Aug. 2017
• Mein Kampf is an incontinent bulk crammed with reflections, ruminations, biographical extracts and frenzied speculations.
  — Nicholas O’Shaughnessy, Slate Magazine, 14 Mar. 2017
• Already incontinent, now Benton couldn’t walk or lift himself out of a chair or bed.
  — Jessica Ravitz, ajc, 25 Apr. 2020
• An incontinent resident had an accident, and Ms. Mangayan would have to clean it up.
  — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2018
• By the time he was discharged more than three months later, he was partially paralyzed in the legs and permanently incontinent.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 19 May 2017
• Listen at one point or another, many of us have dated a gross guy who is verbally incontinent and causes a wildfire fight amongst lady friends.
  — Roxanne Adamiyatt, Town & Country, 26 Sep. 2020
• Plummer’s brush with the industry left her incontinent.
  — Matthew Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• It was parked under a giant tree that apparently housed a family of incontinent birds, because my windshield was covered in poop.
  — Charlotte Andersen, Redbook, 23 May 2017
• All were in bed or wheelchairs, diagnosed with memory loss or dementia and were incontinent.
  — Flkeysnews.com, miamiherald, 5 June 2017
• At Hacienda, most of the residents are incontinent and wear diapers.
  — Stephanie Innes, azcentral, 13 Feb. 2020
• The new president replaced his predecessor’s incontinent spending with a programme of austerity, backed with a $4.2bn loan from the IMF.
  — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
• In another recent case, a car dropped off at First Step Communities an elderly woman who was incontinent and had soiled her clothing.
  — Cynthia Hubert and Ryan Lillis, sacbee, 21 Feb. 2018
• Nonskid rugs are great in homes with golden-age dogs that may become incontinent because of kidney disease or as a side effect of heart medication, to name just a couple of potential causes.
  — Kim Campbell Thornton Andrews McMeel, Star Tribune, 28 Aug. 2020

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