BEDCLOTHES


Meaning of BEDCLOTHES in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

pull

Cower in the bowels of the earth from it, and pull the bedclothes over your head.

She pulled back the bedclothes and heaved Rory back into his usual sitting position.

He pulled back the bedclothes and put the jar underneath them.

Still seething with anger, she pulled the bedclothes around her.

She rolled up her pyjamas and stuffed them under her pillow, before quickly pulling the bedclothes to.

She got up, pulling back the bedclothes and releasing the blinds on both windows.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Abruptly he jumped up and tore away the bedclothes , searching the rug on which he had lain.

Another one put washing on to a line, gaudy bedclothes and sombre shirts.

Cower in the bowels of the earth from it, and pull the bedclothes over your head.

Dolly watched him, bedclothes up to her chin.

He had given him a shave and changed his bedclothes .

Her Uncle lay quite still, eyes closed and breathing so faintly that the bedclothes hardly stirred.

Make a pot of soup or wash bedclothes .

Thought it had slipped down the bedclothes somewhere.

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