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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
Noun
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Marine units pulled three people from the water while 19 others swam to shore on Hart Island before they were transported by Coast Guard, police and fire department units to nearby City Island to receive further medical evaluation at a hospital.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
9 June 2025
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He was treated at a hospital and transferred to the Metropolitan Detention Center.—
Brittny Mejia,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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As he was being taken to the infirmary, he was allegedly assaulted again, the indictment states.—
Samira Asma-Sadeque,
People.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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Brooks was on an infirmary bed when the attack occurred, and at one point in the video his face was visibly bloodied.—
Doha Madani,
NBC News,
20 Feb. 2025
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And Samaritan’s Purse just committed to help with a community clinic and resilience center.—
Jasmine Baehr,
FOXNews.com,
5 June 2025
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Read All About It A Washington state man was charged with providing large amounts of chemicals used in a car bomb outside a Palm Springs, California, fertility clinic last month.—
Elizabeth Robinson,
NBC news,
5 June 2025
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Nearly two dozen former sanatoriums are still standing in the town, housing a dwindling number of families like Ms. Bondarevi’s.—
Oscar Espinosa,
Christian Science Monitor,
9 May 2025
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The overall look was sort of old-school sanatorium, slightly updated but with zero indulgence to luxury—definitely not a place for flaunting Birkins.—
Tiziana Cardini,
Vogue,
11 Mar. 2025
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“Sickroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sickroom. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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