cot

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Recent Examples of cot Facility staff told Stanton that some pods have a cot or mattress on the floor, in order to house more than two people in a room. Laura Gersony, AZCentral.com, 7 Aug. 2025 However, the 4-year-old told her a different story, saying that a woman at the facility grabbed her by the arm and roughly tossed her onto a cot. Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 2 Aug. 2025 Jay Clary Orlando Images of babies and even young men on cots, little more than bones, just hours from death, aren’t easily erased from many minds. Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Aug. 2025 Original price: $51.99 A camping cot gets your dog off the ground, which can help keep them and their dog bed clean. Christopher Murray May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 1 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cot
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cot
Noun
  • Both Gage and Jenkins laud opulent or jewel tones as a great place to start when building a room out from a maximalist sofa.
    Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Woman sitting on sofa using laptop to video call doctor while holding pills.
    Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The bungalows were five original tea planters’ homes named Lakeside Castlereagh, Summerville and Dunkeld, Norwood and Tientsin.
    Alissa Fitzgerald, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The aesthetic is a major shift for the Southern California brand — here more Ivy League formal than Venice Beach bungalow.
    Oren Peleg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Loneliness is the healthy emotion that nudges us to get off the couch and go be with people.
    Dev Patnaik, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The Pro Bowl defensive tackle was tossed out of the Eagles’ home opener on Thursday night before many viewers had even gotten settled on their couches.
    Kevin Dotson, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • One of the images shared showed what appeared to be a makeshift hut surrounded by trees, while another showed a shelter, and one featured a tent and tarp, a gas bottle,a camping stove, and packs of what appeared to be alcohol.
    Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2025
  • There are also several huts spread across the prairie.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Later phases will include a disc golf course, a dog park, fishing piers, kayak and paddleboard access, a bird watching area, a hammock pole area and a lake deck, according to Rawn.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2025
  • With a scarf, ingenuity, and gumption, Breinberg had scored higher than the people who’d used fire, dry needling, hammocks, and cups.
    Sarah Larson, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Two dachshund siblings have delighted viewers on Instagram after a video of them cuddling together on their shared daybed went viral, drawing more than 134,000 likes and a flood of emotional responses from viewers.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Day nests are practical frames, which seem more straightforward, as per the press release, akin to a simple daybed.
    Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Wandering through the all-but-empty dormitories today, visitors see the spaces marked by the vertical support poles, which once housed nests of bunks.
    Don Sproul, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Deputies then transported him back to his cell, where he was placed on the lower bunk.
    Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 6 Sep. 2025

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“Cot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cot. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.

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