Sample Sentences for
dementia
(editor-reviewed)

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    My hair looked like a bird's nest; my shuffling gait like a dementia patient's.†  (source)
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    Her mother was senile, but they called it dementia now.†  (source)
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    After ten minutes, it was obvious he was suffering from some type of dementia.†  (source)
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    The doctor also said the dementia would progress and that Walter would likely become incapacitated.†  (source)
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    Juanita and her folks knew where they stood with a certitude that bordered on dementia.†  (source)
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    He remained stubbornly distant even as he faded into dementia in his sixties.†  (source)
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    And Miss Mary, she might not be so good at conversation due to her dementia, but she taught me how to knit.†  (source)
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    One of the kinfolk is in the Valiant Village, which is a care facility for patients suffering from dementia.†  (source)
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    It went on to talk about a five —to seven-day incubation period and the symptoms—how such things as irritability and trouble with balance were early warning signs, followed by dementia, paranoia and severe aggression later on.†  (source)
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    I was so shaken that I had to look around to get my bearings — frothy gray facade of the Alwyn, like some lurid dementia of the Baroque—and the floodlights on the cut-work, the Christmas decorations on the door of Petrossian struck some deep-embedded memory gong: December, my mother in a snow hat: here baby, let me run around the corner and buy some croissants for breakfast ... I was so distracted that a man coming fast round the corner whacked straight into me: "Watch it!"†  (source)
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    She procured a good supply of antibiotic drugs from our granddad Dr. Bud Wharton, who has senile dementia and loves to walk outdoors naked but still can do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.†  (source)
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    But Andy Harris, still at the oxygen cache, in-the throes of his hypoxic dementia, overheard these radio calls and broke in to tell Hall-incorrectly, just as he'd told Mike Groom and me-that all the bottles at the South Summit were empty.†  (source)
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    Abby used to worry about becoming forgetful, because her maternal grandfather had ended up with dementia.†  (source)
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