Sample Sentences for
incontinent
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    When Khubchand, his beloved, blind, bald, incontinent seventeen-year-old mongrel decided to stage a miserable, long-drawn-out death, Estha nursed him through his final ordeal as though his own life somehow depended on it.  (source)
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    I hope I'm not incontinent; I'll have to wear big nappies....Robbie will never stand for that—if he gets famous he won't want a girlfriend who wears nappies.  (source)
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    We had to move Alice from Rufus's bed for his comfort as well as hers, because for a while, Alice was a very young child again, incontinent, barely aware of us unless we hurt her or fed her.  (source)
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    And so the periodically incontinent prodigy ended up in a small, windowless office on the South Side, talking to a woman with horn-rimmed glasses, who asked Colin to find patterns in strings of letters and numbers.  (source)
    incontinent = unable to control bodily bathroom functions
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    Denver tended her, watched her sound sleep, listened to her labored breathing and, out of love and a breakneck possessiveness that charged her, hid like a personal blemish Beloved's incontinence.  (source)
    incontinence = inability to control bodily bathroom functions
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    The trial of Partridge, the schoolmaster, for incontinency; the evidence of his wife; a short reflection on the wisdom of our law; with other grave matters, which those will like best who understand them most.†  (source)
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    For Dina, lying incontinent and paralyzed in her home, life seemed to be over.  (source)
    incontinent = unable to control bodily bathroom functions
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    It went on to a grand-mal attack; tonic clonic seizure, urinary incontinence, the whole bit.†  (source)
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    You must not put another scandal on him, That he is open to incontinency; That's not my meaning: but breathe his faults so quaintly That they may seem the taints of liberty; The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind; A savageness in unreclaimed blood, Of general assault.†  (source)
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    There would be a brown patch when I stood up, as if I'd been incontinent.  (source)
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    It's a new version of Dahl1 and just as boguslinguistic graphomania, verbal incontinence.†  (source)
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    Chapter x. Showing the truth of many observations of Ovid, and of other more grave writers, who have proved beyond contradiction, that wine is often the forerunner of incontinency.†  (source)
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    So, am I going as an incontinent?†  (source)
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