How to Use bunk in a Sentence

bunk

1 of 2 noun

• Watt filled in the 42-inch span from the end of the bunk to the wall with back-to-back Ikea wardrobes.
  — Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
• Bits of yarn are scattered across his steel bunk and the table in front of him.
  — Kunlyna Tauch, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Aug. 2023
• The crew scrambled out of their bunks, expecting to see a rock or rogue wave.
  — WIRED, 15 June 2023
• Her home was a cramped bunk with a flimsy mattress deep in the ship’s belly.
  — Kathleen McGrory, ProPublica, 6 Jan. 2024
• Records show the owner of the farm told Brown County sheriff’s deputies that Lepe lived in a bunk room above the milk house.
  — Maryam Jameel, ProPublica, 25 Oct. 2023
• One van has two queen beds, another has one king bed and the third has two full beds and a bunk to sleep five.
  — Chadd Cripe, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• In the kids' bedroom, Kate and Dave turned a full-size bottom bunk into a twin to make space for a shelf unit.
  — Kit Selzer, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• Book a hostel-style bunk room in the complex’s Snyder Hall.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 7 Nov. 2022
• Each night, Sasha and Oliviia argued about who would take which bunk.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• The captain liked him, and had a bunk for him moved into his own cabin, which was the size of a large closet.
  — David Owen, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2024
• The more than 5,000-square-foot floor plan features two primary suites, two guest suites and a bunk room for all the kids.
  — Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 29 Aug. 2023
• Reservations can only be made over the phone and huts are equipped with cook stoves, wood stoves, and eight bunks.
  — Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
• This is the birthing area where all of the sailors sleep nine to a bunk room, but in between, these are the tubes where the ballistic missiles are stored.
  — ABC News, 22 May 2022
• Its 7-inch thickness is supportive enough for any bed but thin enough to use in a bunk.
  — Sabrina Rojas Weiss, Parents, 11 July 2023
• Maybe what happened to me in that dorm room bunk was pure Aristotelian katharsis.
  — WIRED, 2 Sep. 2022
• The next day, Greer was overcome by a seizure and tumbled from his bunk, hitting his head on the concrete floor.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2023
• Now the infant shared a bottom bunk with both parents in the guestroom and Noah slept on the top bunk, and who knew what the future held.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2023
• An hour later, he was found hanging from the upper bunk by a shoestring.
  — Don Thompson, Sacramento Bee, 7 Mar. 2024
• All 33 passengers and a crew member who were trapped in a bunk room below deck died.
  — CBS News, 18 Oct. 2022
• Soldini’s crew of six, now making their third trip around the globe, needs to adapt to that tune to sleep in two tiny bunks below deck.
  — Michael Van Runkle, Robb Report, 8 July 2023
• Metal bunks attached to the wall are topped with inch-thick, tear-proof mattresses.
  — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 July 2023
• Detainees were kept in cells, about six feet by four feet, with a metal bunk and mattress, toilet and sink.
  — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 1 Feb. 2022
• Less than 12 hours after his arrival, Bulger was found dead in his bunk.
  — Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2023
• One angler has set up twinkle lights for her three-night stay on her bottom bunk.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Feb. 2023
• The boy was lying face up in a CPR position on the floor of a bunk house, authorities said.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 17 Feb. 2024
• Bunk Room With four bunks, this comfy bedroom is the ideal spot for sleepovers.
  — Stefanie Waldek, House Beautiful, 14 Aug. 2023
• Inside is a suite with attached bunk room/nursery space.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 6 Sep. 2022
• Nefti promised to repair the loose wall paneling behind my bunk.
  — Hernan Diaz, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2022
• Often, this ends up in a bunk product that leaves users with a bad perception of CBD in general.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 6 Jan. 2024
• The home features a vaulted great room with wide-plank floors, exposed beams, and clerestory windows; big open kitchen; bunk/theater room; and lower level with ski gear area and kitchenette.
  — The Week Staff, theweek, 31 Jan. 2024

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bunk

2 of 2 verb

• We'll bunk here for the night.
• She was able to bunk with friends.
• The women bunked four to a room in the cold and dreary servant quarters of nearby Woburn Abbey.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec. 2019
• For them, New York’s soaring real estate prices mean the only way to stay is to bunk with a roommate once again.
  — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022
• To cover those costs, rates to bunk at historic hotels can often be high.
  — Jennifer Barger, Travel, 3 Dec. 2020
• No one’s going to feel sorry for people being asked to bunk in a 5-star hotel room, sure.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2020
• Though only about an hour from Seattle, travelers can also bunk up in the quaint town of North Bend, about 23 miles west of the trailhead.
  — Maggy Lehmicke, Outside Online, 4 Nov. 2020
• At one point, Deal, who is Black, had to bunk with a white supremacist with swastika tattoos.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2022
• Congregate shelters can bunk dozens or even hundreds of people in just a few large rooms.
  — Juliette Rihl, The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2023
• Now Johnson will share a room with her youngest daughter, and her three other children will bunk together across the hall.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2021
• Officers bunk three to a stateroom, a little larger than a walk-in closet.
  — Jim Wilson, Popular Mechanics, 1 Dec. 2020
• Sam and Jay have the ghosts bunk together to free up rooms for bed-and-breakfast guests, but find out Thorfinn has night terrors, prompting Sam to find a therapist for help.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• Key swing state Pennsylvania’s delegation will bunk in rooms at the Palmer House.
  — John Byrne, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
• Completed over two days, with the option to camp or bunk up in mountain huts along the way, the route includes wild scrambles, rocky outcrops and hikes over ankle-cracking tussocky grass.
  — Joe Minihane, CNN, 14 July 2022
• Come evening, bunk down at the nearby Farmhouse Inn, a 25-room Forestville retreat with single-access entry, private fireplaces, a spa and Michelin-star dining.
  — Andrew Nelson, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2021
• Some players even said that their uniforms were hand-me-downs from the men’s teams, and while male players would get to stay at hotels, the women, who were only paid $15 per diem during overseas travel, all bunked in one room at a bed-and-breakfast.
  — Time, 23 June 2023
• Since the late 2000s, child advocates have criticized Texas for regularly bunking abused and neglected children in state offices.
  — Dallas News, 6 Mar. 2023
• Housing conditions also are improving at the border, said the department, releasing a video that shows new dormitory-style buildings installed near Laredo that will bunk four soldiers per room.
  — Dallas News, 25 Feb. 2022
• Before city officials ordered mandatory evacuations of the Tampa neighborhoods closest to the water, Steve McClure, 54, had stocked up on food, batteries and flashlights and made plans to bunk with his parents in a nearby county.
  — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 27 Sep. 2022
• But when she’s forced to bunk with her work nemesis, history professor Sam Morris, Yolanda’s adult summer camp experience goes from eyeroll-inducing to downright annoying.
  — Washington Post, 10 June 2021
• In Dallas and other regions, the department signed memoranda of understanding with entities such as churches, other religious groups and private child placing agencies to use their facilities as places to bunk such children.
  — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
• That issue is driven by partly by economic changes, with multiple generations bunking together to save on expenses, as well as cultural expectations among some groups that families should live together.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2023
• We'll bunk here for the night.
• She was able to bunk with friends.
• The women bunked four to a room in the cold and dreary servant quarters of nearby Woburn Abbey.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec. 2019
• For them, New York’s soaring real estate prices mean the only way to stay is to bunk with a roommate once again.
  — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022
• To cover those costs, rates to bunk at historic hotels can often be high.
  — Jennifer Barger, Travel, 3 Dec. 2020
• No one’s going to feel sorry for people being asked to bunk in a 5-star hotel room, sure.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2020
• Though only about an hour from Seattle, travelers can also bunk up in the quaint town of North Bend, about 23 miles west of the trailhead.
  — Maggy Lehmicke, Outside Online, 4 Nov. 2020
• At one point, Deal, who is Black, had to bunk with a white supremacist with swastika tattoos.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024