Sentence examples for sectioned from inspiring English sources

For patients who are sectioned the low staffing levels are presenting another problem, which I believe amounts to an institutional neglect.

What do I have to do to get sectioned?" His question brings Catch-22 to mind, which happens to be one of Tom's favourite novels.

And in any case, this man is using "sectioned" as a shorthand for wanting to stay in hospital – to be anywhere, in fact, other than his flat, with its bags of rubbish and abusive neighbours.

Many of the patients stayed on a voluntary basis, others were detained under the Mental Health Act – commonly known as being "sectioned".

But this can be a murky area, as Byron explained: "When I suggested I was going to leave or go for a walk it was made clear to me in no uncertain terms that I'd be restrained until they could have me sectioned.

"Had she been sectioned?" The coroner's assistant replied: "Yes".

Bincliffe was sectioned under the Mental Health Act when she was 18 after attacking a boy in a supermarket, the court heard.

Eventually she suffered a psychotic episode and was sectioned in a Greek hospital for three months.

Josh was sectioned in a Cardiff hospital.

The more specific reference is to a wooden chair with turned (shaped on a lathe) front legs, square-sectioned back legs, arm supports, a simple, unupholstered seat, and a slightly raked panel back, usually with some form of incised decoration and sometimes topped with a carved cresting.

In "A Meeting of Minds with Henry David Thoreau", a poem of six sections (many of these poems are in fact multi-sectioned expansive pieces), we are told: "In my absence/I had missed two visitors/or so their footprints told me./One left nothing I could know them by".