incontinent

Example Sentences

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He fell into a coma, became incontinent and quadriplegic.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

Janette, 67, who was a former carer herself, has dementia and is doubly incontinent.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2025

If you’ve ever tried to wrangle a hissing, scratching, flailing, selectively incontinent beast into a cat carrier, you’ll appreciate the way Amy Attas practices veterinary medicine: She makes house calls.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2024

But two days later the pain was increasing and she realised she was incontinent.

From BBC • Aug. 14, 2023

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