How to Use hospice in a Sentence

hospice

noun
  • She chose to go to a hospice instead of a hospital.
  • Prager would set up the hospice.
    — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 Mar. 2026
  • That’s why babies cry, a hospice nurse had told us.
    — Hazlitt, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Most costs are incurred in the first and last week of hospice care.
    — Markian Hawryluk, Fortune, 27 July 2022
  • Over the next three years, my father went in and out of hospice.
    — Sage Mehta, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
  • A little more than half are hospices, records show.
    — Jason Henry, Daily News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • She was set to leave for hospice care and wanted the best for her cats.
    — Fox News, 13 June 2020
  • Her hospice team upped the dosage of her fentanyl patch, which helped.
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2022
  • Carter, who remained at his home in hospice care, cast his vote by mail.
    — Ty Roush, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2024
  • If hospice patients can grow and change at the end of life, why not grow and change now?
    — Arianna Huffington, Time, 16 Feb. 2026
  • All proceeds from the book will go to hospice care for children.
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Her family plans to bring her home for hospice care.
    — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
  • All the artists were or are currently in hospice care.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 1 May 2026
  • On this April day, Isaac is home, on hospice, asleep in the house.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Time, 29 May 2026
  • Axyl had just a few weeks to a few months to live, and would receive hospice care from his home.
    — Sam Gillette, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • Alex could spend the rest of her life at home with home nursing support or hospice care.
    — Elizabeth Broden, Hartford Courant, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Two days after that, a staff member called them and said he should be put in hospice care.
    — Will Englund, Washington Post, 27 June 2020
  • He was admitted to hospice last week.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The 100-year-old has been in hospice care for nearly two years.
    — Phillip M. Bailey, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Last week, he was admitted to hospice.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Mercury News, 30 Sep. 2025
  • There’s no question that Van Nuys is a hot spot for hospices.
    — Jason Henry, Daily News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Meeting with hospice on the 4th… opening the flood gates of donors.
    — Sam Tabachnik, Denver Post, 8 June 2025
  • Bieber, who was 90, passed away in hospice care in Grand Rapids.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Prior to his death, he had been moved to hospice care in Springdale.
    — Jillian Frankel, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • She had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's and was in hospice care.
    — CBS News, 2 May 2025
  • His death matched up with what the hospice manuals described.
    — Amanda Peet, New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2026
  • These were the privileges of hospice.
    — Allegra Goodman, Literary Hub, 11 Feb. 2026
  • This type of care is usually offered in hospice.
    — Kyle Werner, Des Moines Register, 20 Jan. 2026
  • She was discharged from a hospital to hospice, and we were told a nurse would be there with her pain meds.
    — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Thomas was in hospice at his midtown home and also went in and out of the hospital.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2025

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