bedfast

ADJECTIVE
  1. confined to bed (by illness)
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How To Use bedfast In A Sentence

  • And one of the greatest men I ever met in my life was a fellow named Colonel Phil Hart, who later became a United States senator from the state of Michigan, who ran errands for all of us who were bedfast; who provided baseball tickets -- Detroit Tigers -- the Briggs family owned the Detroit Tigers then; his wife was a Briggs. Remarks At World War Ii Memorial Breakfast Reception
  • MAKE SURE he stays bedfast for a while," Dr. Goodfellow told them at the door. Moon Shadow
  • Or Jim McQuiggin, in Ireland, nursing his completely helpless, bedfast wife, twenty-four hours a day, year after year. They Smell Like Sheep Volume 2
  • When the visitors stopped coming, Mamaw fell into depression, went bedfast. For All the Good These Hands Have Done
  • For years, Elizabeth Barrett had been an invalid, bedfast in her room. Swan’s Soup & Salad
  • Grandmother Krausa, although bedfast, occasionally insisted on being carried on inspection tours; somebody always suffered. Citizen Of The Galaxy
  • And her father and mother, sister died with tuberculosis, set it on me and I was bedfast five months. CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2002
  • The style here is more emotive than Swift's, but in his deadpan explanatory notes ( "This is a rural English custom designed to eliminate aged and bedfast dependents") there is a Swiftian factuality. Déjeuner sur l'Herbe
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