How To Use Bedclothes In A Sentence
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Then, unhampered by rigid, traditionalist gender role notions, he put on Grandma's nightclothes, crawled under the bedclothes, and awaited developments.
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I gathered the bedclothes around and grimaced as I gingerly stood, then limped toward the door with my makeshift wrap trailing on the floor.
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The bedclothes were a little mussed, but she probably didn’t last long enough to suffer much.
TOO MANY MURDERS
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His wife preferred to read lying down, huddled in the bedclothes with the book close to her face.
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Often there is nothing that can be properly called bedclothes at all — just a heap of old overcoats and miscellaneous rags on a rusty iron bedstead.
The Road to Wigan Pier
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In fact he went blind writing adolescent plots to rule the world in tedious and long winded detail under the bedclothes.
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The bedclothes are the exact color of your eyes, which I imagined shining up at me as I made love to you.
How to Woo a Reluctant Lady
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First the curtains took fire and then the bedclothes.
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For a long time Isabel lay dry-eyed in the crumpled bedclothes, staring at the closed door.
THE WHITE DOVE
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Nicandra threw an arm out over the bedclothes and turned her cheek fiercely into the pillow.
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I collapsed on it, and breathed in the smell of her bedclothes.
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He turned on his side angrily, bunching the bedclothes around him.
THE SOUND OF MURDER
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The bedclothes stirred and Auntie smiled sleepily and he climbed up to have cuddles.
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Sometimes Toto manages to get the outermost layer of bedclothes, which is fine.
Foldedspace
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I lie, sweaty and supine, upon the damp bedclothes.
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The bedclothes were draped over a sofa.
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When she came, Frank kept under the bedclothes until I had stripped her, and getting into bed with her performed the hymenial rites in due order.
Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover
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Then I heaped the bedclothes on her and in the darkness the silence was unbearable.
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She would read with a candle under the bedclothes.
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She rolled up her pyjamas and stuffed them under her pillow, before quickly pulling the bedclothes to.
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The room was inky black, though after a while her eyes adjusted and she could just make out Adam's bulk huddled under the bedclothes.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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She thought he was under the bedclothes in the box room.
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I took the book away, drew the bedclothes up to her chin, removed her glasses.
DOUBTFUL MOTIVES
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The room was empty, the bed heaped with bedclothes, the carpet rucked up as though he'd danced a tarantella upon it.
THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
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She crept in beside him under the bedclothes.
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He switched off the bedside lamp and burrowed down beneath the bedclothes.
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He switched off the bedside lamp and burrowed down beneath the bedclothes.
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The bedclothes were a festival of natural fibers—cotton, wool, silk, mohair—all flavors of the same pale gray.
Isabel’s Bed
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Harvath then became acquainted with the word fomites, a term used by modern epidemiologists to describe items such as garments, bedclothes, cups, and toothbrushes, which were known to possess the capability to harbor infectious pathogens.
Blowback
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It had clean towels, clean bedclothes and, most importantly, a bath with limitless hot water.
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Dolly watched him, bedclothes up to her chin.
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In another, the artist's wife lies in a canopied bed while a bored servant tends to her knitting: Here the bedclothes, the canopy and a nearby chair form a tangle of angled lines, aided by a liberal use of wash, that somehow mass into the things they are meant to depict.
Two Complementary Quests
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The bedclothes were draped over a sofa.
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Am I the only person who still gets a sneaky pleasure from slipping under the bedclothes and falling asleep fully-clothed?
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He pulled back the bedclothes and put the jar underneath them.
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I changed the bedclothes after I had slept in them for a week.
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The room was inky black, though after a while her eyes adjusted and she could just make out Adam's bulk huddled under the bedclothes.
NOBLE BEGINNNINGS
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First the curtains took fire and then the bedclothes.
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At night she wears lace and nylon bedclothes while the other girls wear flannel and cotton nightgowns.
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Adriana disentangled herself from the bedclothes, went to the window, and looked out into the rain-washed garden.
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If you think it is caused by house dust mites then throw away your carpets, wash the floors every day and vacuum afterwards, even vacuuming your bedclothes.
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It had clean towels, clean bedclothes and, most importantly, a bath with limitless hot water.
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And when things have gone well, how the waker comforts himself among the bedclothes as he claims for himself to be whole all over, teres atque rotundus, — so to have managed his little affairs that he has to fear no harm, and to blush inwardly at no error!
The Way We Live Now
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Kicking off the bedclothes, he began to pace the room, barefoot.
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The bedclothes fell away to reveal a soft, flannel nightgown, and she wondered hastily where her evening gown was.
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All the bedclothes were folded and tucked in and the little girl's toys were arranged neatly on top of the bed.
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Without knowing it, she was trembling under her bedclothes, her knees shaking beneath the linen.
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First the curtains took fire and then the bedclothes.
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You may wish to read it under the bedclothes at night.
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I imagined her springy muscles stretching and flexing, her hair tousled, her bedclothes rumpled.
A RODENT OF DOUBT
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One proceeded to dress him in his nightclothes while the other turned back the bedclothes.
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The rest of them was submerged under the bedclothes, their limbs wedged against his.
THE IMAGE OF LAURA
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Clare suddenly noticed that Elinor's hands were gripping the bedclothes, betraying the emotion hidden by her quiet words.
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Shiona shivered beneath the bedclothes.
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The bedclothes were tumbled as though the bed had been slept in.
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Instead of a burglar with a bag and maybe a cudgel or shotgun, they saw a small mound under the bedclothes.
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Make a pot of soup or wash bedclothes.
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Then the bride's undergarments or bedclothes stained with hymenal blood are publicly displayed.
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disarrayed bedclothes
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She spoke calmly, absent-mindedly adjusting her mother's bedclothes.
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Make a pot of soup or wash bedclothes.
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Her Uncle lay quite still, eyes closed and breathing so faintly that the bedclothes hardly stirred.
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During the night the Earl was woken by the sensation of his bedclothes being pulled from him.
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She froze under the bedclothes, pulling them up over her head.
WITHIN A WHISPER
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Tomorrow she would be on her way home, she thought, eyes closing tightly, ignoring the added heat of the bedclothes.
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I lay back in the warm bedclothes, aware of her musky scent covering the linen and myself.
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Her Uncle lay quite still, eyes closed and breathing so faintly that the bedclothes hardly stirred.
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I flick my ear, as if to shoo away a worrisome fly, roll over, scrunch up the bedclothes, and resolve, this time, to fall bloody asleep.
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Some days she was listless, propped up facing the window, watching sunlight clock across the valleyed bedclothes.
Spin
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Rodney's blankets were of a bright green and so were his bedclothes.
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Tom and his six brothers are terrified as they huddle under the bedclothes, listening to the ogre coming up the stairs.
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Jade rolled over, tangling her legs further in the bedclothes, and squinted at the sunlight coming in through a crack in one of the curtains.
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Jessie looked with dismay at the collection of dirty-looking shawls and coats her stepmother was piling on the sofa as "bedclothes," and if she had not been so dead tired, she could never have brought herself to lie down under them.
The Story of Jessie
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Fully dressed, she lay atop the bedclothes clutching a windup alarm clock with double brass hemispheres on top, registering its hypertensive ticktock like the pulse of a mechanical hummingbird.
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Everything's looking rosy, and then all of a sudden you wake up on your own on the floor with your bedclothes unruffled.
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But this bed did not exactly suit our fancy, and, seeing the necessity for some better kind of bedclothes, our wits were once more set to working, in order to discover something with which to fasten together the duck-skins that we had been saving and drying, and of which we had now almost a hundred.
Cast Away in the Cold An Old Man's Story of a Young Man's Adventures, as Related by Captain John Hardy, Mariner
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I tossed a pile of bedclothes over her, kissed the long light-brown hair which rippled on the straw matting, daguerreotyped the face on my memory with a glance, blew out the light, opened a window, and slipped out of it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860
