How to Use cot in a Sentence

cot

noun

• My cot was on the 10-yard line.
  — Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 30 Aug. 2025
• Late arrivals will get a cot for one night.
  — Niki Donohue, New York Daily News, 3 May 2026
• Staff will need to sleep on cots in the meantime.
  — Steven Rosenbaum, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
• Extra beds and cots can be brought into all rooms.
  — Matt Ortile, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
• The member lay back down on the cot and strapped himself in tighter.
  — Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
• The man wakes up woozy and bandaged on a cot, his head throbbing.
  — Jen Spyra, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2021
• The soldiers were locked inside; some slept on cots in prison gyms.
  — Jennifer Gonnerman, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
• He was known to sleep on a cot in the store during the early, lean years.
  — Madison Malone Kircher, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2021
• The cot is at the very front of the boat, its head tucked in the V shape of the bow.
  — Michael Wilson, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2022
• And then to be in, again, the barracks with the cots and heavy bags and the crappy food.
  — Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 5 Dec. 2025
• She was moved to a private room, where Hollis could sleep on a cot.
  — Kavitha Surana, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2023
• The large banquet room was set up with cots, water and toiletries.
  — Kathy McCormack and Patrick Whittle, Chicago Tribune, 15 July 2023
• The crew slept on cots under tarpaulins each night.
  — Adam Iscoe, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
• But the process had its ups and downs, and meant several months of staying on a cot.
  — Helen Rummel, AZCentral.com, 20 Oct. 2025
• No cots or beds were being provided, though.
  — Mona Darwish, Oc Register, 22 May 2026
• In one corner, her daughter has strung blankets around her cot to build a fort for the cats.
  — Diana Markosian, National Geographic, 7 Oct. 2020
• One of the gems in the project was a nursery school, where farmers’ children could nap on cots.
  — Amity Shlaes, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
• Social workers have brought in cots so that not all children have to sleep on the floor, lawyers said.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 7 July 2023
• Dion, the foreign fighter, was catching up on rest on a narrow cot in coach.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022
• In the sleeping area, everyone gets a bed with a thick mattress, rather than a cot.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2021
• Soon, Phan is driving to the park to make sure her relatives get some cots.
  — Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 2 June 2026
• Dead cockroaches lay around the kitchen and a sleeping cot was set up in the storage area.
  — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 6 Oct. 2025
• The centers are open 24 hours and provide food, water and a cot to sleep.
  — oregonlive, 28 June 2021
• There was a metal cot, a coal-burning stove and a bare light bulb hanging from the ceiling.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 16 Feb. 2026
• Off to the side, pink bows tie off two sides of a small canvas tent to make visible the cot inside.
  — Emily Mesner, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Aug. 2023
• Linda, who was seventy-five years old, and white, was sitting cross-legged on a cot.
  — Sierra Crane Murdoch, Harper's Magazine, 3 May 2023
• The first night in his cot, Jaron stretched out his hand and touched Zilpha’s fingers.
  — Annie Proulx, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
• The small rope and plastic loop also means it can easily be attached to cribs and cots.
  — Rachael Hogg, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2023
• Doctors were seeing patients in a waiting room with only a few cots.
  — Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 15 May 2026
• The right cot can make all the difference in comfort and convenience.
  — Max Inchausti, Field & Stream, 2 Aug. 2023