Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Plural form of sickbed.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word sickbeds.

Examples

  • On the frontlines of civic life, tending sickbeds and delivering babies, women have alliances and access that men don't.

    Abigail E. Disney: Afghanistan's Secret Weapon Abigail E. Disney 2011

  • Just today 2 people at work told me stories of our employer-sponserd plan, for which we pay huge premiums and ever-increasing deductibles and copays, and my colleagues still have to fight the insurance company from their sickbeds following emergency surgery.

    Lobbying for Your Health: 150,000 seniors in revolt 2010

  • Again, in the eighteenth-century, my favorite period in English Literature, (at the dawn of the modern era -- but before Louis Pasteur), accoucheurs (the precursors of obstetricians) killed many women with the microbes they unknowingly carried from the sickbeds of other patients.

    Erica Jong: If Men Could Get Pregnant, Abortion Would be a Sacrament 2008

  • No human at the time knew why little Sickle Eve could work and play and live while other children were dying or languishing in sickbeds.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

  • I had seen wives weep themselves into a stupor over the sickbeds of abusive husbands, and children cry hysterically at the funerals of fathers who had torn stripes in their thighs and buttocks with a belt.

    The Unquiet John Connolly 2007

  • Nearly everyone in the village -- women, children of both sexes as young as 2 years old, even the elderly and the invalids who were too weak to get out of their sickbeds -- fell victim to the Gillette.

    Terror Islands 2007

  • Likewise, if Robert DeNiro, Edie Falco, Lynn Redgrave, Suzanne Sommers, Jaclyn Smith, Rue McClanahan and a host of others had given up and taken to their sickbeds, we would have been deprived of many hours of entertainment.

    No! To All the Political Haymakers Who Said the Edwards Were Making Political Hay... 2007

  • I had seen wives weep themselves into a stupor over the sickbeds of abusive husbands, and children cry hysterically at the funerals of fathers who had torn stripes in their thighs and buttocks with a belt.

    The Unquiet John Connolly 2007

  • Well, now the Bush people are ordering soldiers out of their sickbeds to Iraq --. soldiers who already served multiple “tours” in many cases.

    The Bush Regime needs to be stopped somehow, so what's it going to be America? 2007

  • No human at the time knew why little Sickle Eve could work and play and live while other children were dying or languishing in sickbeds.

    The Edge of Evolution Michael J. Behe 2007

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.