How to Use bunk in a Sentence

bunk

1 of 2 noun

• Comey, of course, calls that bunk.
  — Chris Brennan, USA Today, 30 Apr. 2026
• This bunk is only five and a half feet high.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2026
• Who’s going to want to get out of bed in these bunk rooms?
  — Hadley Hall Meares, Architectural Digest, 2 Mar. 2026
• In some ways, the lowest bunks are the most private.
  — Zach Wichter, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2026
• Once he was handcuffed, deputies placed him on the lower bunk of his cell.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 21 Sep. 2025
• Many offer bunk-style layouts for kids and large, cozy beds for adults.
  — Abby Price, Southern Living, 18 Nov. 2025
• Two foreigners in the same bunk!
  — Cassandra Neyenesch, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
• Bits of yarn are scattered across his steel bunk and the table in front of him.
  — Kunlyna Tauch, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Aug. 2023
• The bunks are just that—bunks, not beds, with mattresses that let the road through.
  — Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2025
• Many rooms have bunks for families, and the lodge has a fleet of cabins too.
  — Jess Hoffert, Midwest Living, 9 May 2026
• The crew scrambled out of their bunks, expecting to see a rock or rogue wave.
  — WIRED, 15 June 2023
• Plus, the other thing is that all the bottles on that top bunk were undisturbed.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2026
• One angler has set up twinkle lights for her three-night stay on her bottom bunk.
  — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Feb. 2023
• Deputies then transported him back to his cell, where he was placed on the lower bunk.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025
• Homesickness is overcome; high dives braved; bunk mates won over.
  — Ellen Barry Brittainy Newman, New York Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• One van has two queen beds, another has one king bed and the third has two full beds and a bunk to sleep five.
  — Chadd Cripe, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• The unit was nearly full, and the only empty spaces were on the top bunks.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
• An hour later, he was found hanging from the upper bunk by a shoestring.
  — Don Thompson, Sacramento Bee, 7 Mar. 2024
• Its 7-inch thickness is supportive enough for any bed but thin enough to use in a bunk.
  — Sabrina Rojas Weiss, Parents, 9 June 2023
• This meant that men and women couldn't share beds, and the girls would have to bunk with one another.
  — Francesca Gariano, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026
• Each night, Sasha and Oliviia argued about who would take which bunk.
  — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• Curled on the bottom bunk, his knees are drawn to his chest, wisps of hair drifting softly around his skull.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Oct. 2025
• Maybe what happened to me in that dorm room bunk was pure Aristotelian katharsis.
  — WIRED, 2 Sep. 2022
• Nefti promised to repair the loose wall paneling behind my bunk.
  — Hernan Diaz, The Atlantic, 27 Nov. 2022
• Reservations can only be made over the phone and huts are equipped with cook stoves, wood stoves, and eight bunks.
  — Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure, 13 Dec. 2021
• Reservations can only be made over the phone, and huts are equipped with cook stoves, wood stoves, and bunks.
  — Alex Schechter, Travel + Leisure, 22 Dec. 2025
• Little ones can stay in the bunk room, where four bunk beds are paired with a desk for reading or creative play.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 2 Feb. 2026
• For years, Interfaith shuttled bunks from church to church.
  — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 16 Jan. 2026
• Watt filled in the 42-inch span from the end of the bunk to the wall with back-to-back Ikea wardrobes.
  — Marni Elyse Katz, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2023
• There are also two full bathrooms and two sleeping areas, one of which is a bunk room that can fit six.
  — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 18 Dec. 2025

bunk

2 of 2 verb

• We'll bunk here for the night.
• She was able to bunk with friends.
• To cover those costs, rates to bunk at historic hotels can often be high.
  — Jennifer Barger, Travel, 3 Dec. 2020
• Congregate shelters can bunk dozens or even hundreds of people in just a few large rooms.
  — Juliette Rihl, The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2023
• No one’s going to feel sorry for people being asked to bunk in a 5-star hotel room, sure.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 14 Aug. 2020
• Officers bunk three to a stateroom, a little larger than a walk-in closet.
  — Jim Wilson, Popular Mechanics, 1 Dec. 2020
• Smith, at one prison, bunked with his brother, Tyrone, who was serving time for manslaughter.
  — John J. Lennon, Rolling Stone, 19 July 2025
• The women bunked four to a room in the cold and dreary servant quarters of nearby Woburn Abbey.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec. 2019
• At one point, Deal, who is Black, had to bunk with a white supremacist with swastika tattoos.
  — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Aug. 2022
• There was a dance party in the cabins closest to the Guadalupe River, where the littlest campers bunked.
  — Colleen Long, NBC news, 12 July 2025
• Now Johnson will share a room with her youngest daughter, and her three other children will bunk together across the hall.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2021
• For them, New York’s soaring real estate prices mean the only way to stay is to bunk with a roommate once again.
  — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022
• Some bunked in the triangular houses equipped with bottles of Amaro digestif.
  — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2026
• Residential advisers had to bunk with students, and some were forced into off-campus housing.
  — Micky Horstman, Chicago Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025
• Key swing state Pennsylvania’s delegation will bunk in rooms at the Palmer House.
  — John Byrne, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2023
• Completed over two days, with the option to camp or bunk up in mountain huts along the way, the route includes wild scrambles, rocky outcrops and hikes over ankle-cracking tussocky grass.
  — Joe Minihane, CNN, 14 July 2022
• Though only about an hour from Seattle, travelers can also bunk up in the quaint town of North Bend, about 23 miles west of the trailhead.
  — Maggy Lehmicke, Outside Online, 4 Nov. 2020
• Sam and Jay have the ghosts bunk together to free up rooms for bed-and-breakfast guests, but find out Thorfinn has night terrors, prompting Sam to find a therapist for help.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• In the morning, one of the creeks that converges with the Guadalupe on the camp’s 700 or so acres was too high for the older girls who bunk on Senior Hill to cross.
  — Karen Valby, Vanity Fair, 16 June 2026
• While newer stations typically provide each firefighter with a separate bedroom, crews back then often bunked in open barracks with little privacy.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Nov. 2025
• At the other end of camp loomed a gigantic khaki military tent, which Watson and Herrington had erected the previous day so that the team’s children could bunk together.
  — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
• For years, state regulators had asked the Sheriff’s Office to stop triple-bunking people, a practice the department acknowledged was dangerous.
  — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
• Pre-bunking to inoculate against misinformation Fighting back against misinformation about climate change has proved to be possible, though not easy.
  — Joe Árvai, The Conversation, 22 June 2026
• Since the late 2000s, child advocates have criticized Texas for regularly bunking abused and neglected children in state offices.
  — Dallas News, 6 Mar. 2023
• Some players even said that their uniforms were hand-me-downs from the men’s teams, and while male players would get to stay at hotels, the women, who were only paid $15 per diem during overseas travel, all bunked in one room at a bed-and-breakfast.
  — Time, 23 June 2023
• Housing conditions also are improving at the border, said the department, releasing a video that shows new dormitory-style buildings installed near Laredo that will bunk four soldiers per room.
  — Dallas News, 25 Feb. 2022
• Come evening, bunk down at the nearby Farmhouse Inn, a 25-room Forestville retreat with single-access entry, private fireplaces, a spa and Michelin-star dining.
  — Andrew Nelson, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2021
• In his photographs of young men of the RAF, Beaton finds a slight homoerotic lens — there’s men sharing cigarettes, bunked together in the trenches and mending clothes on a sewing machine.
  — Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 20 Oct. 2025
• That issue is driven by partly by economic changes, with multiple generations bunking together to save on expenses, as well as cultural expectations among some groups that families should live together.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 18 Apr. 2023
• But when she’s forced to bunk with her work nemesis, history professor Sam Morris, Yolanda’s adult summer camp experience goes from eyeroll-inducing to downright annoying.
  — Washington Post, 10 June 2021