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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

One night recently, two American women who had bedded down in sleeping bags in a park, woke suddenly to find the young men of the village singing gaily and dancing around them in a circle.

From Time Magazine Archive

"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