incontinent

Example Sentences

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He fell into a coma, became incontinent and quadriplegic.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

Unfortunately, my mum's incontinent so she was left lying in her own urine.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2025

She has a learning disability, hypermobility, is doubly incontinent, and is more susceptible to cancers.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2025

After he teed off in 2003 on the Fox teenage drama “The O.C.” as a “moody, moon-faced trifle,” the show fired back with a hospital scene featuring a patient named Tom Shales, who is incontinent.

From New York Times • Jan. 16, 2024

When Khubchand, his beloved, blind, bald, incontinent seventeen-year-old mongrel decided to stage a miserable, long- drawn-out death, Estha nursed him through his final ordeal as though his own life somehow depended on it.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy