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bedfellow
[ bed-fel-oh ]
noun
- Also called bedmate. a person who shares one's bed.
- an associate or collaborator, especially one who forms a temporary alliance for reasons of expediency:
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
bedfellow
/ ˈbɛdˌfɛləʊ /
noun
- a person with whom one shares a bed
- a temporary ally or associate
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Example Sentences
Wallace crept into bed beside his communicative bedfellow in silence.
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He first made an attempt on the apprentice, his bedfellow; but he struggled so far as to effect his escape, and hid himself.
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He implores mercy for his “desolate bedfellow,” for her children, and for his sons by his first wife.
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My bedfellow and I slept on an oilcloth, covered with an overcoat, and tied our four feet up together in a flannel shirt.
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Why do they hardly feel that they have prayed if company, or a bedfellow, on a journey, keeps them from using oral prayer?
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