bed and board
Example Sentences
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In August 2023, Alex Chalk, then Conservative Justice Secretary, scrapped the policy of taking bed and board deductions from all future payouts.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2025
"A few of the luckier poor people got bed and board in the hospital for life. Selection criteria would have been a mix of material want, local politics, and spiritual merit."
From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2023
Known as Wwoofers they provide practical labour in exchange for bed and board.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2016
"Free bed and board, free meals, laundry done, no bills. What a result!"
From The Guardian ● Aug. 18, 2014
To not a few of the members this contingency was a spectre, ever present, seated at bed and board, and able to defy the rules even of Almack's and Crockford's.
From Chippinge Borough by Stanley J. Weyman
