abed

Example Sentences

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But we have also filled our cemeteries with those who defied the remedies of sunshine and citrus, and died abed anyway.

From Los Angeles Times

But after the boys were abed, he sat long before his fire with the tired look on his face and the ‘heimweh’, or homesickness, lying heavy at his heart.

From Literature

I cursed the laziness of the servants that they should lie abed at such an hour—for it was now ten o’clock—and so rang and knocked again, but more impatiently, but still without response.

From Literature

Above the narrow little room where May and Timothy sit plotting, their father lies abed, his wits gone haywire.

From New York Times

He was the beloved youngest sibling—sickly as a child, often abed with paper dolls and movie magazines—in a family of Slovak immigrants, and a lifelong Byzantine Catholic churchgoer.

From The New Yorker