How to Use sick bay in a Sentence

sick bay

noun
  • Dylan Larkin scored for the second straight game after a stay in sick bay.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The Wings cannot afford to have their premier goal scorer sitting in sick bay.
    — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Unlike those prisoners, Bankman-Fried has been held in the sick bay.
    — Katanga Johnson, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Stratton finished breakfast and filled his white hat with oranges on his way to visit a buddy in sick bay.
    — Shaun McKinnon, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Ivanov and her assistants work in longhand, writing down every diagnosis in the sick bay.
    — Smith Henderson, Popular Mechanics, 20 Nov. 2017
  • The soldier’s wartime diary detailed conditions in his unit’s sick bay—and the Army’s response to the crisis.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Glenn blew the side hatch, and doctors escorted him to the ship's sick bay for a medical examination.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2022
  • That day, two sailors reported to the receiving ship’s sick bay with chills, fever, sore throat, and coughing—the usual symptoms of influenza.
    — Randy Roberts and Johnny Smith, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2020
  • Women with children could be in apartment-kind-of barracks, and then there would be a dining facility, a sick bay and then a sheriff’s office.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2022
  • In sick bay, Christine and M’Benga tend to the Lutani pilot injured after the Jikaru’s attempt to defend itself.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Things don’t immediately look dire for Gamble, who’s whisked out of the chamber, up to sick bay, and into the care of M’Benga, who sets to work generating a new set of eyes.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2025

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