hospitalize
Example Sentences
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When he gets unruly, they discharge or hospitalize him.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2024
The girl’s mother had previously told The Associated Press that agents had repeatedly ignored her pleas to hospitalize her medically fragile daughter, who had a history of heart problems and sick cell anemia.
From Washington Times • May 21, 2023
“The police are not looking to involuntarily hospitalize people who are not a danger to others,” said Debbie Pavick, chief clinical officer for Thresholds, a nonprofit behavioral health organization that works with homeless people.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2022
It would give outreach workers, city hospitals and first responders, including police, the discretion to involuntarily hospitalize anyone they deem a danger to themselves or unable to care for themselves.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 29, 2022
I cannot get her out of this steel block unless I hospitalize her, perhaps operate.
From Sinister Paradise by Williams, Robert Moore
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
