Hammock

//ˈhæmək//

"Hammock" in a Sentence (15 examples)

She idled away many hours lying in the hammock.

Julio is swinging in the hammock that I hung under the old oak tree.

When a thunderstorm suddenly came out of the blue, she jumped abruptly out of the hammock and ran headlong into the house where she stopped short, remembering suddenly that she had no lightning rod, and because she realized at once that this sudden onrush of a thunderstorm could end her life before she could say Jack Robinson, she became sore afraid.

Tom saw that Mary was fast asleep in the hammock.

Tom was asleep in the hammock, snoring quietly.

Tom doesn't like sleeping in a hammock.

You could sleep in the hammock.

She lay in the hammock for hours.

Tom slept in a hammock.

I don't like sleeping in a hammock.

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[…] the poore ſaylers, who […] commonly get forthwith into their beds (or hamackoes) reſting their tyred bodies […]

[W]ho vvould not rather Sleep Quietly upon a Hammock, vvithout either Cares in his Head, or Crudities in his Stomach, then lye Carking upon a Bed of State, vvith the Qualms and Tvvinges that accompany Surfeits and Exceſs?

"I fancied that we — I and who? — hammocked among the summer breezes."

"She hammocked their plaids between the table and the bed, then edged her way past Kenneth as she approached the central hearth."

"She hammocked her breasts into her bra, snapped it, hitched at it, and gave herself a profile glance in the mirror."

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