featherbed

Example Sentences

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The lights flickered on and weightlessness returned, cradling me like a featherbed.

From Nature • Oct. 17, 2017

“The program has also become a kind of featherbed for parents who might have, in the past, considered redshirting their children.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2016

The pitch for that match was a slow featherbed which contributed to a bore draw.

From The Guardian • May 19, 2013

Bit worried, the pitch looks a featherbed without Mitchy bowling on it.

From BBC • Dec. 17, 2010

Then she realized that die blood had soaked through the sheet into the featherbed, so she bundled that up as well, but it was big and cumbersome, hard to move.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin