How to Use bedroll in a Sentence

bedroll

noun

• The activists had brought a lot of pot but not enough jackets or bedrolls.
  — David Treuer, New York Times, 2019-11-21
• Some street people, like her, aren’t in need of a bedroll and defer to others.
  — Diane Bellcolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2022-11-01
• The cars towed trailers laden with canvas tents, surplus stoves, cinched bedrolls, and the like.
  — Craig R. McCoy / Staff Writer, Philly.com, 2017-07-12
• In the classrooms the desks had been pushed to the walls and the floors heaped with clothing, bedrolls, teapots, buckets.
  — National Geographic, 2016-10-17
• Sometimes older drifters would pass by, men with only the clothes on their backs, maybe a bedroll across their shoulders.
  — Chris Rush, Harper's magazine, 2019-08-19
• Bronco Henry once saved him from freezing to death by lying body against body in a bedroll.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2022-03-01
• Mack hikes down from the mountain with three main packs: fishing gear, camping gear (bedroll, coffee pot, skillet, saw, ax, etc) and clothing.
  — OregonLive.com, 2017-06-15
• 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, 2023-02-27
• More than eight years ago, homeless men and women set up tents and bedrolls in an empty lot near downtown Sacramento to challenge the city’s ordinance against camping outdoors for more than a day at a time.
  — Cynthia Hubert, sacbee, 2017-10-23
• Cheryl’s body and some of her belongings, including clothing and a bedroll, were found about six months later near a pond in Vigo County, about 100 miles from the cornfield where the girls were assaulted.
  — Marisa Kwiatkowski, USA TODAY, 2024-05-14
• On a spring day in 1868, the fourteen-year-old Huie and his three cousins left their village before daybreak, each with just a bedroll and a bamboo basket carrying their belongings, and caught a small boat to Hong Kong.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 2021-08-23
• 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, 2022-11-25