During the holiday season, the center's volunteers serve up meals-on-wheels, feeding homebound seniors and the homeless.
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Homebound
//ˈhoʊmbaʊnd//
Synonyms for "homebound" (3 found)
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Translations
4 translations across 2 languages.
German
1 entries- auf dem Heimweg adj (heading homeward)
Serbo-Croatian
3 entries- kući adj (heading homeward)
- prema kući adj (heading homeward)
- vezanost za kuću adj (unable to leave one's home)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Being homebound has led to unprecedented usage of streaming services, causing concern among EU officials that it could strain internet bandwidth beyond capacity and trigger a crash.
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Meals on Wheels volunteers deliver daily hot meals to adults over the age of 60 who are homebound.
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In the afternoon of the 23rd of February of 2022, at the cafe, I sat at my favourite corner table to drink my iced green tea, which on other times, I alternate with iced passionfruit tea and iced black tea. Hans the Netherlander hobby astronomer sat at a central table. There were young people with strange hairdos, like samurai top knot, or big and curly, or long and red-tinted. Homebound, I had to use the washroom in the pizzeria, where there were Eurasian students.
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