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Recent Examples of sickroom
On the night of September 8, 1976, as Mao hovered near death, senior members of the Politburo gathered in a sickroom in the leadership compound in Beijing to pay their final respects.
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Tyler Jost, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2025
This show at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., revealed an artist who always seemed to be emerging from dark sickrooms, seizing the landscape, which struck his eyes as fresh and startlingly sensate.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
To prevent infected air from seeping out of the sickroom, Fox suggests wedging towels in the gap under the bedroom door.
—Liz Szabo, NBC News, 17 May 2022
Martineau broke off all contact with Greenhow, left her sickroom in Tynemouth, and resumed traveling and writing once more.
—Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2021
When Praskovya bursts into her husband’s sickroom, the music shoots a jolt of energy — and life — into the moment.
—Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Feb. 2021
For Richard Wright and Masaoka Shiki, lying on their sickroom beds, writing haiku was an art of short spurts of insight followed by exhaustion.
—Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 25 June 2020
Even the devoted family dog, Heidi, was banished from the sickroom.
—Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2020
Tyler Jost, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2025
This show at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., revealed an artist who always seemed to be emerging from dark sickrooms, seizing the landscape, which struck his eyes as fresh and startlingly sensate.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
To prevent infected air from seeping out of the sickroom, Fox suggests wedging towels in the gap under the bedroom door.
—Liz Szabo, NBC News, 17 May 2022
Martineau broke off all contact with Greenhow, left her sickroom in Tynemouth, and resumed traveling and writing once more.
—Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2021
When Praskovya bursts into her husband’s sickroom, the music shoots a jolt of energy — and life — into the moment.
—Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Feb. 2021
For Richard Wright and Masaoka Shiki, lying on their sickroom beds, writing haiku was an art of short spurts of insight followed by exhaustion.
—Christopher Benfey, The New York Review of Books, 25 June 2020
Even the devoted family dog, Heidi, was banished from the sickroom.
—Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sickroom
Noun
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That firefighter was transported to a hospital, though the chief did not specify where.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
7 Jan. 2026
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The employee of the gas station went by ambulance to a hospital, where he was treated for a gunshot wound, Olson said.—
Rick Hurd,
Mercury News,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Fred Singleton passed away Monday at the Kirkland Correctional Institution’s infirmary, the South Carolina Department of Corrections announced on Friday.—
Greg Norman,
FOXNews.com,
11 Oct. 2025
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Despite that, he was not taken to the jail’s infirmary.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The health beat takes her inside operating rooms, laboratories and clinics to tell the story of health care from a human perspective.—
Nicole Villalpando,
Austin American Statesman,
8 Jan. 2026
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At the Harm Reduction Coalition of Santa Cruz County’s mobile syringe clinic, a single lamp shines a bright circle over folding tables stacked with boxes of soap, toothpaste, electrolytes, syringes, condoms and Narcan — a drug that can reverse opioid overdoses.—
Albert Chern,
Mercury News,
8 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Negligence is rendering the old sanatorium unhabitable, bit by bit, as a widening foundational crack threatens to cleave the building in two.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
28 Nov. 2025
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Among the films vying for the international prize is The Kartli Kingdom, directed by Tamar Kalandadze and Julien Pebrel, an exploration of a former sanatorium in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi that shelters refugees from the brutal 1990s war in Abkhazia.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
13 Nov. 2025
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“Sickroom.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sickroom. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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