Bed
Bed verb - To go to one's bed in order to sleep.
Usage example: the campers all bedded down for the night around 9:00 p.m.
Lie
How words are described
| old | old bed | old lie |
| good | good bed | good lie |
| best | best bed | best lie |
| single | single bed | single lie |
| Other adjectives: simple, filthy, small, actual, big, huge, beautiful, new, giant. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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In one episode of Downtown Jen and Alex have a "post-coital" scene where they lie on the bed, exhausted, and talk about how good what they just did was.
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When they do notice, very often this will take the form of them deciding they're a little tired and need a lie-down... on a flammable wooden bed...
Source: Major Injury Underreaction -
One of the evil grand vizier Iznogoud's plans to become Caliph instead of the Caliph revolved around getting the Caliph to lie down in a cursed bed where all who slept disappeared.
Source: Klatchian Coffee
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