How to Use bedpan in a Sentence

bedpan

noun
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  • That all of it — the ancient text, the washed dish, the emptied bedpan — manifests love and death.
    — Bonnie Tsui, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2021
  • In other news: - John Bradley talks about the evolution of Sam Tarly and those gross bedpan scenes.
    — USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2017
  • The grotesquely racist patient who hurled bedpans at any caregiver of color who entered his room.
    — Corinne Purtill, Quartz at Work, 5 June 2019
  • The hospital once used the area as a dumping ground, and to the side of the trail in the brambles is a scattering of ancient sinks, bottles and, yes, a few bedpans, though these bikers have been hauling them out.
    — Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Now the 31-year-old is poised to turn his flash-in-the-bedpan success into a lucrative brand that can be summed up by his Instagram bio: The Fart Authority.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 25 Aug. 2018
  • In the late 18th century, more than half of the population of the city of Williamsburg was Black, burdened with the firewood chopping, bedpan emptying, and farming that kept the capital of the colony of Virginia humming.
    — National Geographic, 26 Sep. 2020
  • Metcalf revels in the gallows humor of an eldercare companion who has emptied one too many bedpans.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The curriculum covers the practical aspects of working in a nursing home: bed-making, catheter care, using a bedpan and transferring residents from a wheelchair to a bed.
    — Sarah Varney, The Enquirer, 18 Jan. 2022
  • The new working class contains many of the traditional blue-collar occupations — truck driver, electrician, plumber — but by and large its members are more likely to wield mops than hammers, and bedpans rather than trowels.
    — Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2017
  • The most intimate care activities are conducted in view of the camera: washing, using a bedpan, changing underwear.
    — The Conversation, oregonlive.com, 27 July 2019
  • Changing bedpans and lifting armrests and holding shoulders, checking charts, slipping little baggies over the tips of thermometers, inserting I.V. needles.
    — David Means, The New Yorker, 25 May 2020

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