Sentence examples for the invalid from inspiring English sources
verb
To exempt from duty because of injury or ill health.
- He was invalided home after the car crash.
She was not even the mother of the invalid upstairs.
It is the invalid child's consolation, the prisoner's last hope.
She calls the scores the "invalid value-addeds".
The invalid has been told the telephone no longer works; newspapers are confiscated.
The Greens urged the states not to sign up to the "invalid program".
Alexa Vega, who plays Shilo, the invalid daughter of the organ-repo man, required more persuading.
McGuane suggested the invalid try writing prose, since he had nothing better to do.
I hate breakfast in bed, the invalid confinement of those precarious trays.
At the start of the film, the invalid is shown naked, half-wrapped in a sheet.
Shlaes, in a bold stroke of psychologizing, lays the hyperactivity to "the restlessness of the invalid".
The invalid patriarch was told about the assassinations of his sons.
