blow-up mattress

Example Sentences

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Since The Couch is not in the Freud Museum, O’Brien returns to the room and does a whole bit using a blow-up mattress.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

They have been sleeping on a blow-up mattress on top of folded up cardboard boxes so they don’t get soaked when rain enters through the gaps in the shelter’s flimsy roof and soaks the floor.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2022

Danielle Spencer, 41, from Preston, said it was "heartbreaking" to sleep on a blow-up mattress on concrete and she was struggling to keep warm.

From BBC • Apr. 23, 2022

Then we went to sleep on a blow-up mattress and an old sofa cushion, as if we were camping out in some strange and disquieting place.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 4, 2019

He says his first apartment was modest, with a blow-up mattress for a bed that frequently popped when he'd lie on it.

From Inc • Jun. 26, 2012