bedfellow

Example Sentences

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A person can get lost in a big house, all alone, with nothing but their memories as a cold bedfellow.

From Salon • Jul. 28, 2025

Peek inside Puerto Vallarta and you’ll discover a curious little pop-up shop inside the restaurant advertising “Himalayan Tea,” dosas, and pink salt, a theoretically strange bedfellow for a Mexican family restaurant.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 17, 2022

Is Musk a strange bedfellow they can live with to save people?

From Washington Post • May 3, 2022

However, choppy high seas don't make for an easy bedfellow with fluid in glass bottles, so the resourceful pharmacist turned his mixture into a lozenge.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2016

There was a slight mist when John Longridge rose early the following morning, having fought a losing battle for the middle of the bed with his uninvited bedfellow.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford