had bedded
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past perfectof bed.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
bednouna piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
Example Sentences
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I walked the wooded banks of the rivers that converge in the capital and found just a few dozen spots where men had bedded down on simple mats of cardboard or newspaper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 7, 2024
Months later, the city moved much more slowly, if more gently, to relocate homeless people who had bedded down on the Venice boardwalk — and that too drew criticism.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2021
The BBC's John Sudworth in Hong Kong says that although the number of protesters has fallen since the weekend, a hard-core group still remain and had bedded down on the barricades on Monday night.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2014
At Nijmegen's Jan Massink sports center, a sports club where 350 evacuees had bedded down on the gymnasium floor, factory worker Jan Hooyman, 40, explained the danger sign.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"It's not just, it's not," she heard one wizened old woman complain to another when they had bedded down for the night.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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