noun
a sofa that can be converted into a bed, either by folding out the seat or by lowering the back to be flush with the seat.
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Also called
so·fa-sleep·er, so·fa/sleep·er [soh-fuh-slee-per]. /ˈsoʊ fəˌsli pər/. Origin of sofa bed
First recorded in 1810–20
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How to use sofa bed in a sentence
My doctor insisted that once I filed this piece I lie down on my bed and not get out.
I fall back into a dream and then suddenly there is a tapping on the window just above my bed.
The distinction between over-policing and non-responsiveness was alive and well in Bed-Stuy.
At Woodhull Hospital, the Bed-Stuy ambulance crew kept doing all they could as they wheeled Ramos into the emergency room.
While violent offenses are dramatically down in Bed Stuy, pockets of violence persist here.
She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.
When I come home from the lessons I fling myself on the sofa, and feel as if I never wanted to get up again.
The embankment or road-bed was commenced by gigantic piling, and is very broad and substantial.
Gaze not upon another man's wife, and be not inquisitive after his handmaid, and approach not her bed.
A little boy had been quarrelling with his sister named Muriel just before going to bed.
British Dictionary definitions for sofa bed
noun
a sofa that can be converted into a bed
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