How to Use bed rest in a Sentence

bed rest

noun
  • The doctor prescribed bed rest for a month.
  • Your doctor just put you on bed rest.
    — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 10 Dec. 2025
  • You're supposed to wear socks all the time and be on bed rest.
    — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 24 May 2023
  • Our daughter, a close friend of the bride, is on bed rest in the last two weeks of pregnancy.
    — Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 29 July 2022
  • The doctor gave them strict orders to give the animal two weeks of bed rest.
    — Denise Coffey, Courant Community, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Doctors found a large hematoma in her abdomen during surgery, and she was placed on bed rest for six weeks.
    — Stephanie Petit, PEOPLE.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • And then my husband was in an accident, and on bed rest, and the grass kept growing.
    — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 12 June 2021
  • Due to some complications, Teigen was placed on two-week bed rest last week.
    — Mary Honkus, PEOPLE.com, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Give her some screen time in bed rest; everyone will understand.
    — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 25 July 2021
  • Still, Levi’s growth during bed rest meant his heart and lungs functioned well outside.
    — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 8 May 2021
  • Her doctors ordered her on to a strict bed rest that required a hospital stay.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2021
  • Strict bed rest can involve staying in bed almost all the time, with very little movement.
    — Michelle Theriault Boots, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2020
  • Smith is pregnant, due in late December, and her doctor just put her on bed rest.
    — Lindsay Schnell, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2020
  • From there, she was put on bed rest and has remained there, waiting patiently to get to 28 weeks.
    — Essence, 9 Aug. 2021
  • JoJo Siwa is on bed rest after getting thrown out of her golf cart.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 2 June 2026
  • The third delivered a baby girl, but demanded 23 weeks of bed rest.
    — Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2024
  • Two months in the hospital were followed by another month of bed rest and antibiotics at home.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 July 2021
  • Michele started taking a high dose of progesterone to help her body sustain the pregnancy and stayed on bed rest.
    — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 26 Mar. 2021
  • At 25 weeks and four days, she was ordered on bed rest and given steroids to help the babies' lungs develop.
    — Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Williams developed life-threatening blood clots in the process and was confined to bed rest for six weeks afterward.
    — Liz Clarke, chicagotribune.com, 27 June 2018
  • Hodges was unable to nurse for part of her hospital stay after she was put on bed rest and her daughter was taken to the nursery.
    — Charisse Jones, USA TODAY, 13 June 2022
  • Bounds was discharged from the hospital the next day and instructed to get bed rest and quarantine for two weeks, the suit states.
    — Zak Koeske, chicagotribune.com, 11 Aug. 2020
  • When Lousie was 29 weeks pregnant, she was admitted to the hospital and placed on bed rest.
    — Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026
  • Like Cindy, their daughter, Jackie, had a high-risk pregnancy and ended up on bed rest.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2024
  • At 16 weeks, she was put on bed rest and ended up being hospitalized at 22 weeks.
    — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
  • In the summer of 1912, Church began having heart trouble and was put on bed rest.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 20 Feb. 2018
  • After 19 weeks of bed rest before their arrival, the triplets arrived eight weeks early, Randy says.
    — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 22 Feb. 2022
  • Some of them broke their bed rest in order to work out on a more traditional suite of exercise equipment, and some of them used the flywheel.
    — Katia Riddle, NPR, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Thank you to my friends and family and our entire household for taking care of me through all the adult diaper changes, bed rest and random hugs.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 28 Oct. 2020
  • After a miscarriage in 2014, Christina conceived again and was put on bed rest.
    — Amanda Garrity, Good Housekeeping, 20 Feb. 2020

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