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Recent Examples of sickroom
This show at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., revealed an artist who always seemed to be emerging from dark sickrooms, seizing the landscape, which struck his eyes as fresh and startlingly sensate.
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Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
To prevent infected air from seeping out of the sickroom, Fox suggests wedging towels in the gap under the bedroom door.
—Liz Szabo, NBC News, 17 May 2022
In 1855, Martineau once again confined herself to a sickroom due to a resurgence of her symptoms.
—Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2021
Martineau broke off all contact with Greenhow, left her sickroom in Tynemouth, and resumed traveling and writing once more.
—Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2021
When Praskovya bursts into her husband’s sickroom, the music shoots a jolt of energy — and life — into the moment.
—Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Feb. 2021
For Richard Wright and Masaoka Shiki, lying on their sickroom beds, writing haiku was an art of short spurts of insight followed by exhaustion.
—Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 25 June 2020
Even the devoted family dog, Heidi, was banished from the sickroom.
—Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2020
Dying people in the bygone world were said to have commonly seen their dead relations or others known to them—not in the hallucinatory trips of the near-death experience, but in the sickroom with them.
—John Crowley, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
To prevent infected air from seeping out of the sickroom, Fox suggests wedging towels in the gap under the bedroom door.
—Liz Szabo, NBC News, 17 May 2022
In 1855, Martineau once again confined herself to a sickroom due to a resurgence of her symptoms.
—Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2021
Martineau broke off all contact with Greenhow, left her sickroom in Tynemouth, and resumed traveling and writing once more.
—Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2021
When Praskovya bursts into her husband’s sickroom, the music shoots a jolt of energy — and life — into the moment.
—Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Feb. 2021
For Richard Wright and Masaoka Shiki, lying on their sickroom beds, writing haiku was an art of short spurts of insight followed by exhaustion.
—Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 25 June 2020
Even the devoted family dog, Heidi, was banished from the sickroom.
—Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2020
Dying people in the bygone world were said to have commonly seen their dead relations or others known to them—not in the hallucinatory trips of the near-death experience, but in the sickroom with them.
—John Crowley, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sickroom
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Soccer Player Sidelined Due to Injury from 'Pretty Hefty Sneeze' According to Ashley, the hospital staff were astonished.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
People.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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In an Episode 2 hospital flashback, Abby discovers her father, who was about to remove Ellie's brain for a humanity-saving cure.—
Bryan Alexander,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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After the beating, another correction sergeant, Donald Slawson, mopped up the blood in the infirmary, preventing investigators from finding any blood spatter to analyze, prosecutors allege.—
Nicholas Williams,
New York Daily News,
16 Apr. 2025
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Last month 10 former New York corrections employees were indicted in the killing of Robert Brooks, an inmate violently beaten while handcuffed in a prison infirmary in December.—
Natalie Neysa Alund,
USA TODAY,
4 Mar. 2025
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Join interactive Pro clinics led by our Pros Carter Worth, Dan Niles, and Dan Ives, with a special edition of Pro Talks with Tom Lee.—
Jesse Pound,
CNBC,
20 Apr. 2025
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Now extend that impact across food pantries, mental health clinics, housing programs, and community centers—and the results are devastating.—
Kelly Anoe,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Apr. 2025
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Yeah, sure, his life was sad: sanatoriums, paranoia, unfinished novels, early death.—
Carlos Valladares,
ARTnews.com,
3 Jan. 2025
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And Davos itself is a microcosm of this microcosm: a landscape of Burkean sublimity whose rarefied air brought tuberculosis patients to its slopes for decades before the development of streptomycin began to empty out the sanatoriums, which over time refashioned themselves as hotels.—
Caitlín Doherty,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
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“Sickroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sickroom. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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