Confined to bed (by illness)
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Examples for "abed "
Examples for "abed "
1 I expected Liz coming to ask me why I wasn't yet abed .
2 The carpenters were no doubt all abed , their work done at last.
3 I was at Coldmoat, safe abed . She looked down at the water.
4 The first to go was the practice of taking my chocolate abed .
5 Whether Drayden had died in battle or abed , Roland could not know.
1 I said the father was a penniless pauper; he died lingeringly bedridden .
2 On the day of the ordeal only the bedridden remained at home.
3 Dad had been bedridden for months and was in a nursing home.
4 Even bedridden , the patriarch dominates the space by means of an intercom.
5 She's normally bedridden , but as you can see, she's very strongly moved.
1 She, perhaps, is dead now, for when he last called she was bedrid , and nearly insensible.
2 Dad had been bedridden for months and was in a nursing home.
3 Gabor's spokesman said the actress had been bedridden for the past few months.
4 Nathan had vomited for three days and was bedridden for two weeks afterward.
5 It was such a dramatic shift for me to be bedridden .
1 He was never bedfast and never had to be waited on.
2 Every now and then for a good many years he's had a bedfast spell.
3 At the coming of winter, Uncle Zed was bedfast .
4 She had become bedfast when she was nineteen.
5 Darned near bedfast I was!
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