bed down
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Homeless men often bed down in sleeping bags and tents and are therefore more visible, but for safety concerns, many female rough sleepers don't.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2025
They arranged for national emergency rental vehicles to pick them up and bring them back to base camp so they could get meals and bed down.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2023
The moose vacated the building but hung around in the building’s semicircular drive for a bit before heading to the other side of the building to bed down for an afternoon.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2023
They roam through the abandoned city of Pripyat and bed down in the highly contaminated Semikhody train station.
From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2023
Ignatius cast a pink and blue and yellow eye over the side of the bed down past his mother’s hanging slip and drooping cotton stockings.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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