bedroll

Example Sentences

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The gang, which was then about two-dozen-strong, moved from one location to another at night, carrying their sparse belongings - bedrolls, weapons, some tarp for protection from rain and simple rations.

From BBC

Grainy pictures shot on cheap cellphones show dazed families from Yay Shin squatting on the forest floor with a few possessions scattered around them, like a cooking pot and a bedroll sodden with rain.

From New York Times

They now squat in a filthy three-room shelter near Kandahar city, 25 miles to the west, their aluminum pots, bedrolls and other meager belongings piled in a courtyard open to the sky.

From Los Angeles Times

First came some homeless residents, toting backpacks and bedrolls, whom Heriford fondly calls “the regulars.”

From Washington Post

The little squatters’ colony grew into a kind of happy Hooverville, a sprawl of tarps, tents and bedrolls that spread through the plaza that lies between City Hall and the ramp to the Brooklyn Bridge.

From New York Times