charpoy

Example Sentences

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As we talk sitting on a traditional charpoy bed, his granddaughters bring us a plate of pears they’ve picked from their garden.

From BBC

They visit their house in the middle of the forest once in a while, to check on their meager belongings and their kitchen garden, and to give their children a chance to sprawl out on the charpoy beds.

From New York Times

“What wrong have I done, that God gave me such a huge punishment?” she said one recent evening, seated on a bright yellow charpoy, a woven bed, outside her brick house.

From New York Times

"I am all they have left," he tells the BBC, perched on a metal charpoy - a traditional bed - underneath a tent.

From BBC

“I mean hot chocolate with marshmallows. You don’t put marshmallows in yours,” I quickly add as I pet the cat, who is now rubbing against the leg of the charpoy.

From Literature