Cot

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"Cot" in a Sentence (17 examples)

Will you show me how to set up a cot?

Tom sleeps on a cot.

Tom is asleep on the cot in the back room.

Tom is fast asleep on the cot.

I slept on a cot in Tom's basement last night.

I sleep on a cot.

I slept on a cot in the basement.

Smoking while pregnant increases the risk of cot death.

Tom sleeps on an old army cot.

The baby is babbling in his cot; he is talking to his teddy bear.

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There was a flickering of lanterns about the camp that night, and a rumor that brought men out of their cots to the tent doors, a paddling of the naked feet of doolie-bearers and the rush of a galloping horse.

the sheltered cot, the cultivated farm

One evening […] we were on a sudden, greatly astonished, by hearing a violent knocking on the outward Door of our rustic Cot.

1898, Ethna Carbery, "Roddy McCorley" (poem). Oh, see the fleet-foot hosts of men who speed with faces wan / From farmstead and from thresher's cot along the banks of Ban

a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame)

a cot for a sore finger

You know, that being an old bachelor, and somewhat of an epicure, he is at home, what the vulgar call a cot; and has laid down his spontoon for the tasting spoon, converted his sword into a carving knife, and his sash into a jelly bag.

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