How to Use bed rest in a Sentence

bed rest

noun
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  • The doctor prescribed bed rest for a month.
  • You're supposed to wear socks all the time and be on bed rest.
    — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
  • So that led to two years of bed rest and six surgeries.
    — Tamara Wilson, CNN, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Also, your back and legs ache, like you’ve been on bed rest.
    — Alex Postman, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Oct. 2017
  • For the rest of her pregnancy, she was put on bed rest.
    — Sara Vallone, Miami Herald, 24 May 2024
  • Our daughter, a close friend of the bride, is on bed rest in the last two weeks of pregnancy.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 29 July 2022
  • The doctor gave them strict orders to give the animal two weeks of bed rest.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 18 Oct. 2017
  • And then my husband was in an accident, and on bed rest, and the grass kept growing.
    — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 12 June 2021
  • In the summer of 1912, Church began having heart trouble and was put on bed rest.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2018
  • The wife and mother of two was put on bed rest while pregnant with her daughters, which caused her to lose a lot of her strength.
    — Vagney Bradley, Houston Chronicle, 16 Jan. 2018
  • Doctors found a large hematoma in her abdomen during surgery, and she was placed on bed rest for six weeks.
    — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • After 12 weeks of bed rest, Boemer gave birth to LynLee at full term, on June 6.
    — Sarah Schreiber, Good Housekeeping, 21 Oct. 2016
  • Dear Carolyn: My sister is 25 weeks pregnant and was just put on bed rest.
    — Carolyn Hax, Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Doctors have over the years prescribed bed rest, pills and, in extreme cases, surgery.
    — Daisy Yuhas, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2017
  • Due to some complications, Teigen was placed on two-week bed rest last week.
    — Mary Honkus, PEOPLE.com, 14 Sep. 2020
  • He’s on bed rest for most of the day, a rough reality for a guy who used to play football and likes to stay active.
    — Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Dec. 2021
  • From there, she was put on bed rest and has remained there, waiting patiently to get to 28 weeks.
    — Essence, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Her doctor tells her to abandon her classes for bed rest.
    — San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Still, Levi’s growth during bed rest meant his heart and lungs functioned well outside.
    — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 8 May 2021
  • At 25 weeks and four days, she was ordered on bed rest and given steroids to help the babies' lungs develop.
    — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Smith is pregnant, due in late December, and her doctor just put her on bed rest.
    — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2020
  • Bounds was discharged from the hospital the next day and instructed to get bed rest and quarantine for two weeks, the suit states.
    — Zak Koeske, chicagotribune.com, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Her doctors ordered her on to a strict bed rest that required a hospital stay.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2021
  • The third delivered a baby girl, but demanded 23 weeks of bed rest.
    — Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
  • Strict bed rest can involve staying in bed almost all the time, with very little movement.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2020
  • After 19 weeks of bed rest before their arrival, the triplets arrived eight weeks early, Randy says.
    — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Her fiancé, now husband, Alexis Ohanian, stepped up to the plate to take care of their daughter while Williams was on bed rest.
    — Essence.com, 10 Jan. 2018
  • MedlinePlus says if the separation of the placenta from the uterus is small, then your provider may put you on bed rest to help stop the bleeding.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Like Cindy, their daughter, Jackie, had a high-risk pregnancy and ended up on bed rest.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2024
  • After a miscarriage in 2014, Christina conceived again and was put on bed rest.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 25 June 2018

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