How to Use bedroll in a Sentence

bedroll

noun

• In the classrooms the desks had been pushed to the walls and the floors heaped with clothing, bedrolls, teapots, buckets.
  — National Geographic, 17 Oct. 2016
• The activists had brought a lot of pot but not enough jackets or bedrolls.
  — David Treuer, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2019
• Sam emerges with bedrolls, scant provisions, a pot and pan, and Ma’s old trunk.
  — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• The cars towed trailers laden with canvas tents, surplus stoves, cinched bedrolls, and the like.
  — Craig R. McCoy / Staff Writer, Philly.com, 12 July 2017
• Some street people, like her, aren’t in need of a bedroll and defer to others.
  — Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2022
• Sometimes older drifters would pass by, men with only the clothes on their backs, maybe a bedroll across their shoulders.
  — Chris Rush, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• Bronco Henry once saved him from freezing to death by lying body against body in a bedroll.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
• Mack hikes down from the mountain with three main packs: fishing gear, camping gear (bedroll, coffee pot, skillet, saw, ax, etc) and clothing.
  — OregonLive.com, 15 June 2017
• Nightmares are plaguing all the Two Rivers travelers, each of whom dreams of pulling a dead bat from their throat before waking to find a dead bat beside their bedroll.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 19 Nov. 2021
• Families are camped out everywhere, their bedrolls, blankets, water jugs and round steel food tins clogging the hallways.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman and Hari Kumar, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2017
• On a spring day in 1868, the fourteen-year-old Huie and his three cousins left their village before daybreak, each with just a bedroll and a bamboo basket carrying their belongings, and caught a small boat to Hong Kong.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
• More than eight years ago, homeless men and women set up tents and bedrolls in an empty lot near downtown Sacramento to challenge the city’s ordinance against camping outdoors for more than a day at a time.
  — Cynthia Hubert, sacbee, 23 Oct. 2017
• However the two met—Cleopatra emerging-from-a-bedroll will be difficult to dislodge from the popular imagination—Cleopatra and Caesar became lovers and, apparently, cruised the Nile together after her brother’s death.
  — Maxwell Carter, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 20 Sep 2024