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 • Nov. 16, 2024

“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 • May 13, 2023

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

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2022

Three goats reclined on a charpoy, a bed woven on a frame, nearby.

From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2020

One of the stray cats that Zohra feeds is curled up on the roof near the leg of my charpoy, asleep, but I’m not sleepy at all.

From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan