[
US
/ˈhoʊmˌbaʊnd/
]
NOUN
- people who are confined to their homes
ADJECTIVE
- confined usually by illness
How To Use homebound In A Sentence
- The cost of one ticket will provide more than one month of hot meals and case management for a homebound senior citizen.
- Unusual bank account activity includes large cash withdrawals and frequent ATM withdrawals when the senior is known to be homebound.
- On the homebound metro, there was a hold-up.
- The side effects were harsh, and Crystal had to begin homebound school because she was too ill to be in a classroom.
- He's about to turn the kids' homebound road trip into a living nightmare!
- He bought an iPod in a duty-free zone at the homebound airport.
- First and foremost, the homebound trip must be safe.
- Homebound Each morning, as she had before the shooting, Mrs. Dorushka dressed and fixed her shoulder-length hair. A 'New Normal' After Tucson Attack
- I used to visit a homebound elderly woman in my parish who spoke with regret of how little she could do, at her age and in her weakened condition, "for the church."
- There are programs for just about everyone - for the homebound, for the chairbound, for people who need to get restarted after a health setback. The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post