1
: of, relating to, or conducted at the bedside
a bedside diagnosis
2
: suitable for reading in bed
a bedside book
Examples of bedside in a Sentence
Noun
She sat at his bedside until the fever broke.
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Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
Mj Premier Leaf-Print Table Lamp $41 $30 Place this small lamp on your desk or bedside table for a touch of glowing greenery in any room.
—Lauren Taylor, Southern Living, 28 Mar. 2024
Is there room in the bureau drawers and enough space on the bedside table for the girl’s stuff?
—Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024
The first 48 hours can be especially tenuous, requiring meticulous bedside adjustment of machines and medications, as the patient teeters between life and death.
—Helen Ouyang, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
Pick up the Zinus Lorelai Full Platform Bed Frame while it’s marked down to $74 or these bedside tables that are large enough to hold a few books, yet small enough to fit into most tight spaces at just under 16 inches wide.
—Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2024
But at one private event in 2022, a select group of researchers were actually invited to hack a Vegas hotel room, competing in a suite crowded with their laptops and cans of Red Bull to find digital vulnerabilities in every one of the room's gadgets, from its TV to its bedside VoIP phone.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
The doctor instructing the medical students and resident doctors described the medical care at the bedside of an elderly Black veteran.
—Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
Adults and kids will like it as a bedside companion, but there are time-to-rest and time-to-rise beacons designed specifically for kids.
—Medea Giordano, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2024
Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 18 Jan. 2023
This obviously changed the relationship between the bedside providers and hospital leadership.
—Time, 10 Jan. 2023
In Ninni Ryott’s diminutive rural cabin, a tiny sleeping loft is fitted with a bedside stool is from Åhléns, and the white linseed-oil paint on the walls is by Kulturhantverkarna Färg.
—Kate McGregor, ELLE Decor, 21 Dec. 2022
Designer Peter Dunham created a custom curtain wall and installed bedside sconces to give this small bedroom a regal feel.
—Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 16 Dec. 2022
This bedside charger and ambient light will elevate anyone's nightly routine.
—Vanessa Powell, Men's Health, 14 Dec. 2022
The overhaul included sleeping quarters that featured queen-size beds and bedside tables, according to the report.
—Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
Musk, who now runs Twitter as well as Tesla, published a photo of his bedside table showing, among other things, four open cans of Diet Coke.
—Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 1 Dec. 2022
Then tell 'em to keep the tray for all the bedside meals in their future (hint, hint).
—Cailey Lindberg, Good Housekeeping, 24 Oct. 2022
Noun
When James died on March 27, 1625, likely of a malarial fever, George was reportedly at his bedside.
—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
Mj Premier Leaf-Print Table Lamp $41 $30 Place this small lamp on your desk or bedside table for a touch of glowing greenery in any room.
—Lauren Taylor, Southern Living, 28 Mar. 2024
Is there room in the bureau drawers and enough space on the bedside table for the girl’s stuff?
—Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024
The first 48 hours can be especially tenuous, requiring meticulous bedside adjustment of machines and medications, as the patient teeters between life and death.
—Helen Ouyang, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
Pick up the Zinus Lorelai Full Platform Bed Frame while it’s marked down to $74 or these bedside tables that are large enough to hold a few books, yet small enough to fit into most tight spaces at just under 16 inches wide.
—Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2024
But at one private event in 2022, a select group of researchers were actually invited to hack a Vegas hotel room, competing in a suite crowded with their laptops and cans of Red Bull to find digital vulnerabilities in every one of the room's gadgets, from its TV to its bedside VoIP phone.
—Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
The doctor instructing the medical students and resident doctors described the medical care at the bedside of an elderly Black veteran.
—Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
Adults and kids will like it as a bedside companion, but there are time-to-rest and time-to-rise beacons designed specifically for kids.
—Medea Giordano, WIRED, 11 Mar. 2024
Adjective
Keep bedside necessities nearby and out of sight with a chest that has multiple drawers, like this 12-drawer one in a home designed by Les Ensembliers.
—Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 18 Jan. 2023
This obviously changed the relationship between the bedside providers and hospital leadership.
—Time, 10 Jan. 2023
In Ninni Ryott’s diminutive rural cabin, a tiny sleeping loft is fitted with a bedside stool is from Åhléns, and the white linseed-oil paint on the walls is by Kulturhantverkarna Färg.
—Kate McGregor, ELLE Decor, 21 Dec. 2022
Designer Peter Dunham created a custom curtain wall and installed bedside sconces to give this small bedroom a regal feel.
—Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 16 Dec. 2022
This bedside charger and ambient light will elevate anyone's nightly routine.
—Vanessa Powell, Men's Health, 14 Dec. 2022
The overhaul included sleeping quarters that featured queen-size beds and bedside tables, according to the report.
—Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
Musk, who now runs Twitter as well as Tesla, published a photo of his bedside table showing, among other things, four open cans of Diet Coke.
—Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 1 Dec. 2022
Then tell 'em to keep the tray for all the bedside meals in their future (hint, hint).
—Cailey Lindberg, Good Housekeeping, 24 Oct. 2022
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“Bedside.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bedside. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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bedside
1 of 2 noun
bed·side
ˈbed-ˌsīd 
: a place beside a bed especially of a bedridden person
bedside
2 of 2 adjective1
: of, relating to, or conducted at the bedside of a bedridden patient
a bedside diagnosis
2
: suitable for a bedridden person
bedside reading
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