bed down

phrasal verb

bedded down; bedding down; beds down

: to lie down somewhere for sleep

There were so many people that some of us had to bed down in the living room.

: to provide (a person or animal) with a place to sleep

They bedded us down in the living room.

When the animals had been fed and bedded down, we went inside to eat dinner.

Examples of bed down in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web However, if your group prefers stepping out to brunch or a bar over the sand, simply reverse that order and plan to bed down in downtown. —

Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 15 Sep. 2024 The readers of Travel + Leisure want more from their vacation rentals than merely a place to bed down. —

Lila Harron Battis, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024 Young kids might not fully make their beds, but tidying their beds is a good first step in learning how to successfully make a bed down the road. —

wendy Wisner, Parents, 5 Sep. 2024 The rams and the bull had been bedded down on the same shale slide. —

Jack O’Connor, Outdoor Life, 4 Sep. 2024 The latest addresses to bed down in 2024 will soon include PURO in the Śródmieście district and Flaner Hotel in the heart of the city set on Krakowskie Przedmieście. —

Kasia Dietz, Travel + Leisure, 15 July 2024 If any homeless resident bedded down beneath the building’s generous overhang, security has cleared them out. —

Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024 Videos circulating on social media shows people wheeling a hospital bed down a street from the hospital. —

Wafaa Shurafa, arkansasonline.com, 3 July 2024 Pedigo and the rest of the flight crew bedded down. —

Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 1 June 2024

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