[
US
/ˈhoʊmˌbaʊnd/
]
NOUN
- people who are confined to their homes
ADJECTIVE
- confined usually by illness
How To Use homebound In A Sentence
- Passengers on the first charter flight on a chilly weekend found their homebound trip still takes almost as long as before, due to the 40-minute stopover.
- The comapny is paid by city health agencies to provide food to the homebound elderly.
- Your hand on an arm or shoulder, a hug, or a gentle massage for a homebound patient can provide support, connection, and healing.
- Today I work in a home care agency, visiting patients who are homebound.
- Ever homebound I dashed; I only wanted to hear the praise of my mama and papa.
- It is not uncommon for church or social organizations to conduct a visitor program for homebound members. An Introduction to Community Health
- The company is most likely correct in targeting the fringes of the classroom, including remedial and homebound students.
- It's a Sunday night, and homebound tramps are everywhere, in the train-station bar, sleeping on benches, strumming guitars, or nuzzling with sweethearts.
- In Milwaukee, the health department says it doesn't have enough vaccine available to inoculate the city's homebound elderly population, for which the flu is particularly dangerous.
- After soaking up the view of France's capital from this favourite spot, they boarded their homebound coach late afternoon and arrived back in Britain in the early hours of Monday.