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)
  • Her mother was senile, but they called it dementia now.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • We die on our eightieth birthdays, surrounded by our families, before dementia sets in.†  (source)
  • Juanita and her folks knew where they stood with a certitude that bordered on dementia.†  (source)
  • He remained stubbornly distant even as he faded into dementia in his sixties.†  (source)
  • But over the summer his encroaching dementia had taken a cruel twist.†  (source)
  • "Dementia?" said Puller, and Cole nodded.†  (source)
  • And Miss Mary, she might not be so good at conversation due to her dementia, but she taught me how to knit.†  (source)
  • One of the kinfolk is in the Valiant Village, which is a care facility for patients suffering from dementia.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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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