Example Sentences

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“When I wash the leper’s wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?”

From Time • Aug. 29, 2016

All of this talk that I am nursing an ambition to send in the troops--no.

From Time Magazine Archive

I'll give out that you have come back with the fever and that I am nursing you.

From Ensign Knightley and Other Stories by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

I cannot even write to you often, because I am nursing our invalids, and Father has to disinfect my letters carefully in the surgery before he considers it safe to forward them.

From The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life by Dixon, Arthur A.

Mamma is ill with neuralgia; I am nursing her, and cannot see you to-day.

From The Argonauts by Curtin, Jeremiah