I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
feather bed/pillow etc (= a bed etc that is filled with feathers )
throw pillow
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
white
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Within minutes she was asleep, her heavy mane of hair spread over the white pillows .
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The white pillows on the floor of the Seclusion Room were soaked from me peeing on them while I was out.
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The pale face lay as if carved on the white pillow .
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Sofas are plump with crisp white bed pillows .
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Omite lies light and still on the white smooth pillow .
■ NOUN
case
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A thin stream of the cool air from outside rocks the blind and chills the pillow cases .
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The top was from two pillow cases in her mending basket.
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Bedding is not provided: sleeping bags, pillow cases and towels should be brought by guests.
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If you sew, it pays to make your own pillows and pillow cases or shams.
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Say the bedsheets and pillow cases as well.
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All you need bring are sheets, pillow cases &038; towels.
feather
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It's far better to ruin a feather pillow than let yourself overflow in violent behaviour.
fight
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Is it like a pillow fight with rock-hard chestnuts?
lavas
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For many years there was much debate about how pillow lavas formed.
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But all we see are pillow lavas , varying minutely with fewer or more buds, perhaps larger or smaller lobes.
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It also used to be thought that pillow lavas could form only at great depths below the surface.
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Pastures of fresh magma flows known as pillow lavas and the rubble of frequent earthquakes line the floor of this stone trough.
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Above, where hot lava erupted from the crust to be chilled by cold sea-water are purple, bulbous pillow lavas .
talk
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Maybe later he'd get the information he was after during pillow talk .
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It was spying, giving away secrets, pillow talk ... Luke knew how desperate she was.
■ VERB
fall
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At length his other hand stole forward to play with the copper tresses that fell about the pillows .
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Miguel fell back against his pillows .
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They were suddenly breathless, falling together on to the pillows .
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Honor and I fall back into the pillows of our banquette.
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His head fell against the pillow .
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Then, abruptly, she was released, falling back against her pillows with a gasp.
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He dropped the diary into the drawer, closed it and fell back on the pillows .
hit
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Betty was asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow .
lie
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Frank was lying back on the pillows with his eyes closed.
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Inside, John lay cradling a pillow in the dark.
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Dot saw the curly mass of Gloria's dark hair lying on the pillow of a similar but separate bed alongside.
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Andy the Mouse lies on the other pillow .
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He was interrupted by a rough cough and lay back against the pillows .
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Ianthe lay back on her pillows .
look
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Then she lay back on her pillow and they looked at each other as if it was for the first time.
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She moved her head around on the pillow , looking for a position that was comfortable.
place
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The demonic sound ceased as abruptly as if a celestial hand had placed a pillow over that squalling electronic mouth.
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Or try placing a small pillow or towel at the base of your spine.
prop
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About 3 hours after her return to the ward she was helped to sit up in bed, propped up on pillows .
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She lies on her back, her body propped up with pillows , fluids dripping through tubes into her veins.
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Amy was propped up on pillows , reading an old copy of the Lady.
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Clarisa was sitting up in bed, propped against a pillow and holding the baby.
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Sun shining, birds singing, me propped up on the pillows idly chatting.
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He was propped up on three pillows , which felt strange to him.
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Elizabeth was propped up on the pillows , with the baby lying in the cradle by the bed.
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William was propped up against pillows as Carrie and Fred walked up to his bed.
put
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She bunched up the guilty hand that had slapped Becky and put it under her pillow .
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They put me on pillows and brought me up for him to hold me before I died.
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At night I used to put the pillow on my head and just hold it so as I couldn't hear.
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She put the pillow down, and hugged Nina.
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Whenever mum was ill I used to get a little card and write a poem and put it on her pillow .
sink
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She pushed his shoulder and he sank back against the pillows and closed his eyes.
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He sank back into the pillows , hooked his thumbs in his belt.
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He sank into his pillow , pulled at the bedcovers and shivered.
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She sank back against the pillows and threw her arm across her eyes.
turn
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Jenna turned fretfully on her pillows .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as soon as your head hits the pillow
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a child, I used to keep them in a perforated matchbox under my pillow and listen to them at night.
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At length his other hand stole forward to play with the copper tresses that fell about the pillows.
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He would shove the pillows around some more.
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She turned her hot face into the pillows and tried to get some sort of control over her heartbeats.
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Slumping back on the pillow , she tried to ignore it.
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Some permanent hooches were air conditioned; they had maid service, with sheets and pillows.
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You can't get prints off a pillow .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
head
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I found there a rebel, covered with clotted blood, pillowing his head on the dead body of a comrade.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I found there a rebel, covered with clotted blood, pillowing his head on the dead body of a comrade.
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There was a dull pain in his left biceps - Tessa's head was pillowed on it.