How to Use homebound in a Sentence

homebound

adjective
  • Amy LaDue said, many young children were homebound.
    — Moriah Balingit, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The group preached the gospel and prayed with members who were sick or otherwise homebound.
    — April Quevedo, jsonline.com, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Those who are homebound and signed up will also receive their meals that day at their residence.
    — cleveland, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Most of these residents speak Spanish, and many are homebound.
    — Robert Weisman, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Each pie donated will underwrite a week of meals for a homebound senior.
    — Alex Kushel, Sun Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2022
  • After many months of homebound life, getting the ball rolling was the best exercise ever.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Maddox now receives homebound education a few times a week, but there’s still no nurse paid for by the school.
    — IndyStar, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Meals on Wheels provides meals and extra water to homebound neighbors.
    — Tara Lynch, CBS News, 1 July 2026
  • Stephanie Searcy bumped up her house’s Wi-Fi speed and logged into her job alongside her homebound teenagers.
    — Tamar Hallerman, ajc, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The Covid-19 pandemic, when many wealthy clients were homebound, added further strain.
    — Trefor Moss, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Many older people are homebound, or don’t know how to find and make vaccine appointments on the computer.
    — Susie Neilson, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Americans, and their wallets, largely remained homebound in large swaths of the country.
    — Paul Wiseman, Star Tribune, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Meals on Wheels works with the county to pair meal delivery with regular check-ins for homebound older adults.
    — Panashe Matemba-Mutasa, Mercury News, 28 Feb. 2026
  • County officials estimate that more than half a million people here could be homebound.
    — Karen Kaplanscience and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2022
  • Sawyer thinks that may be because some elderly residents are homebound and can’t easily go out to a vaccine site.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2021
  • The pandemic years brought another wave of growth as homebound consumers sought comfort products.
    — Esha Chhabra, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • In a time when even the most ardent travelers are homebound, many transportation companies are on life support.
    — Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou, Quartz at Work, 11 June 2020
  • Radabaugh also partnered with a food bank to deliver meals to homebound residents.
    — Henry Larweh, Miami Herald, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Radabaugh also partnered with a food bank to deliver meals to homebound residents.
    — Henry Larweh, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
  • To save those restaurants and give those homebound families some space, city planners did something that had been unthinkable, or at least undoable.
    — Adam Rogers, Wired, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Residents who are homebound can call a help line to get water delivered, but Bownes said the process takes too long and isn’t reliable.
    — Michael Phillis, chicagotribune.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The district said other buses may run on a delay, and an announcement regarding homebound bus routes will be posted later.
    — Molly Walsh | [email protected], cleveland, 2 Nov. 2022
  • People who are homebound or rarely outside may have low levels of vitamin D as a result of not being able to get sun exposure.
    — USA Today, 9 June 2020
  • Millman, his wife and their teenage daughter are barely getting by on his two part-time jobs, one bagging groceries, the other helping homebound seniors.
    — Noam N. Levey, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2026
  • The car industry turned to using bulk carriers, which carried goods like grain, soybeans, and coal on their outbound journeys, and cars on their homebound trips.
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Ramona Meals On Wheels is delivering meals to homebound seniors.
    — Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Ramona Meals On Wheels is delivering meals to homebound seniors.
    — Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Ramona Meals On Wheels is delivering meals to homebound seniors.
    — Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026
  • Ramona Meals On Wheels is delivering meals to homebound seniors.
    — Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Ramona Meals On Wheels is delivering meals to homebound seniors.
    — Ramona Sentinel, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026

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