abed

Example Sentences

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But we have also filled our cemeteries with those who defied the remedies of sunshine and citrus, and died abed anyway.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024

Above the narrow little room where May and Timothy sit plotting, their father lies abed, his wits gone haywire.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2021

Gentlemen in England now abed, or just watching it on TV, will think themselves accursed they weren’t there.

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2017

I began to notice I was losing sleep about a decade ago − at first just a little top-and-tailing of the main period of repose, so I lay abed an hour or so less.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2015

Yet as fate would have it, he was the only captive who was never seen; he was abed in a tower cell, recovering from a wound.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin