quadriplegic

Example Sentences

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He fell into a coma, became incontinent and quadriplegic.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

My partner Rosie, who I met three years ago, is a quadriplegic like myself, and those films got her through some dark times.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2026

The brain damage the boy suffered is permanent, doctors reported, causing him to be a quadriplegic, blind and unable to talk, walk or eat on his own.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2025

But I represented a young Black man who was quadriplegic whose elderly parents tried to help get him an ID several times, unsuccessfully.

From Slate • Oct. 2, 2024

I sat one day with a man who’d gone off young and healthy to an overseas deployment, leaving behind a pregnant wife, and had come back quadriplegic, unable to move his arms or legs.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama