cot

Example Sentences

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Marfisee and her students walked through the surrounding neighborhood, went cot to cot in the women’s dorm and held two informational sessions in December and January to answer patients’ questions.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2026

The law caught him: “a slot open, a cot waiting” in jail.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

Our route through quiet corridors reveals the hidden strains of this war: just one newborn gurgling in a cot, and one woman in labour.

From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026

Jake, nestled into his sleeping bag on a cot underneath the museum's gigantic suspended model of a blue whale, said he was "so happy to be here."

From Barron's • Oct. 25, 2025

“I stood in the front hall,” Elizebeth wrote, “and watched my husband being carried on a hospital cot out the door.”

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield