bedfast

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Here and there a bedfast invalid screamed foolishly.

From Time Magazine Archive

After having been obliged to give up his dental practice, Blaiberg was bedfast.

From Time Magazine Archive

His mother had been bedfast with an incurable ailment for months and he wanted to marry highfalutin Mary Louise Smith, 18-year-old daughter of onetime big-league Ballplayer Jimmy Smith, now a well-to-do Pittsburgh nightclub owner.

From Time Magazine Archive

The scientists, who have been going aboard each morning since the test started on Jan. 19, took blood samples from the bedfast half of the crew.

From Time Magazine Archive

I knew a sick girl, who, bedfast for years, used to amuse herself with what her windows and an opera-glass commanded in the way of sky and foliage.

From Doctor and Patient by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)