bedmate

Example Sentences

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Carrie returned to Uganda 13 months later to adopt Brynn — who had been orphanage bedmates with Kaatri — and again met Evelyn to update her on Mae’s new life.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 19, 2022

But in some ways, the effects of these glowing bedmates seem to be a bit more pernicious.

From Salon • Sep. 16, 2019

To examine the relationship between insomniacs and their bedmates, they gave questionnaires to 14 women and 17 men whose partners were participating in a separate clinical trial for insomnia.

From Time • Jun. 14, 2017

The doctors hadn’t given Hamada any drugs—only a mostly empty bag of intravenous fluid—but one of his bedmates, who had been in the ward for several days, warned him not to volunteer.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 18, 2016

At night they slept in a haystack, so grateful for open air even the field mice and the ticks were welcome bedmates.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison