featherbed

Example Sentences

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Although the pitch seems like a featherbed now, there is a suggestion of low bounce and turn.

From BBC • Jun. 16, 2023

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

It was that shortage of variety that led Notts to gamble on a result pitch here, when a draw on a featherbed would have better-suited their title challenge.

From The Guardian • Sep. 7, 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