Example Sentences

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DeMarco crawls into his bed – a sheetless mattress on the floor – to conduct the interview.

From The Guardian • Sep. 11, 2015

Just a sheetless mattress, a bunched fishing net, a pile of dirty clothing, a solitary spoon on a banister.

From Washington Post

Abbott led an aimless life of twelve-hour shifts at $4 an hour and spent hot nights on tired, sheetless mattresses in lonely bunkhouses a hundred miles from nowhere.

From Time Magazine Archive

Old grads glowing too gloriously were put to bed by 500 helpful undergrads�some in sheetless cots lent by Red Cross Disaster Relief.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two chairs, a home-made table with a Kansas City Star as a cloth, a sheetless bed, a rough cupboard, a stove and floors carpeted with accumulations of untidiness completed the furnishings.

From Dust by Haldeman-Julius, Marcet