Examples of bedroll in a Sentence
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Laramie first shared a bedroll with senior ranch hand Lloyd (Forrie J. Smith) before moving on to Walker, which caused tensions in the tight quarters to boil over.
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Sara Netzley, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2023
Other tangential theories on Britannica.com note that burritos may have gotten their name from the cylindrical bedroll that burros often carried.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2023
The gift, which Riley's stored with her bedroll in the backroom of a taco restaurant, is the book of puns Ellie will later entertain Joel with on the road.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2023
Tempur-Pedic’s TEMPUR-Topper Supreme, a three-inch memory foam bedroll with over 2,000 glowing online reviews.
—Emily Ruane, refinery29.com, 5 Oct. 2020
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
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
Bronco Henry once saved him from freezing to death by lying body against body in a bedroll.
—Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
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
Sara Netzley, EW.com, 14 Apr. 2023
Other tangential theories on Britannica.com note that burritos may have gotten their name from the cylindrical bedroll that burros often carried.
—Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2023
The gift, which Riley's stored with her bedroll in the backroom of a taco restaurant, is the book of puns Ellie will later entertain Joel with on the road.
—Randall Colburn, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2023
Tempur-Pedic’s TEMPUR-Topper Supreme, a three-inch memory foam bedroll with over 2,000 glowing online reviews.
—Emily Ruane, refinery29.com, 5 Oct. 2020
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
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
Bronco Henry once saved him from freezing to death by lying body against body in a bedroll.
—Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2022
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
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Word History
First Known Use
1849, in the meaning defined above
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“Bedroll.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bedroll. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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bedroll
noun
bed·roll
ˈbed-ˌrōl 
: bedding rolled up for carrying
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