comatose

How To Use comatose In A Sentence

• Two workboats, ancient battered things with rusting plates, shouldered into it from either side like a couple of drunks supporting a comatose companion.
• On admission, the patient was acidotic, and he rapidly became comatose.
• Consciousness ranges from alert to confused to a comatose state in less than 20 percent of patients.
• By midnight I was virtually comatose.
• On the twentieth, sweated all over; apyrexia, dejections bilious; aversion to food, comatose. Of The Epidemics
• They thought he was an old has-been, that the fever had fuddled his wits, that his weeks of near-starvation had starved his brain-tissue into comatose stasis.
• Patients were excluded if they were comatose, unresponsive, and/or intubated.
• He had a fever of 105 and was comatose when he arrived at the hospital late in January.
• I am almost comatose after my stay here and long to get away. The Times Literary Supplement
• It is not a severe attack," my father wrote at the beginning, "yet it is attended by fits of exceeding discomfort, occasional comatoseness, and even delirium to the extent of making the poor child talk in rhythmic measure, like a tragic heroine -- as if the fever lifted her feet off the earth; the fever being seldom dangerous, but is liable to recur on slight occasion hereafter. Hawthorne and His Circle