[
UK
/bˈɛdsaɪd/
]
[ US /ˈbɛdˌsaɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈbɛdˌsaɪd/ ]
NOUN
-
space by the side of a bed (especially the bed of a sick or dying person)
the doctor stood at her bedside
How To Use bedside In A Sentence
- Having designed many elements in the hotel, from the bedside lamps to the banquette sofas, he has now set his sights on a much bigger challenge.
- She knew few other details and left my bedside to gossip with the other nurses in the hallway.
- From the Rushmorean cover portrait of Bush (which over the headline 'An American Revolutionary' was such a brazen and transparent effort to recall George Washington that it was embarrassing) to the 'Why We Fight' black-and-white portraiture of the aggrieved president sitting somberly at the bedside of the war-wounded, this issue is positively hysterical in its iconolatry. "What kind of a maniac puts eagles in a Christmas tree?": James Wolcott
- A silver-backed brush and comb set with her monogram gleamed in the soft bedside light. SUMMER OF SECRETS
- There are good bedside reading lamps and stacks of glossy magazines. Times, Sunday Times
- If the room had a little light apart from the faulty bedside lamp that flickered unpredictably every few minutes it wouldn't be so bad, or even just a fan that at least to cool and circulate the foul damp air.
- They can't be at their bedsides, but they are recording story tapes for their families to listen to at home.
- Two nights before she died, there was an all-night vigil at her bedside.
- I look at the digital clock, built into the bedside.
- With a sewing needle from her bedside table, Marylyn pricked her finger and squeezed it until two drops of blood fell onto the sheets.