bathe

Example Sentences

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Even with the help of her daughter, who regularly helps bathe her brother, Wu only sleeps three to five hours a night.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

"I struggled to shower, my partner would sometimes have to bathe me; I physically could not care for myself."

From BBC • Jan. 21, 2026

In smaller remote settlements, where wages are on average 50% lower, people bathe by hacking out chunks of ice to melt.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Living off the grid like many in the area, Butler, then 65, was lucky one of her water tanks survived so she could bathe.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025

Still, feeling deeply that his filth was an unforgivable imposition, he’d chosen to bathe first, and thus had he discovered, at the age of twenty, the incomparable pleasure of submergence in hot water.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor