BUNK in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for BUNK, such as:

1. The twins sleep in a bunk bed.
2. He lay in his bunk pondering upon it.
3. A lot of people bunk off early on Friday.
4. He lay in his bunk under a mound of blankets.
5. He sprang from the bunk and began to pace nervously to and fro.

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 Meanings and Examples of BUNK
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bunk
 n.  a rough bed (as at a campsite)
 v.  flee; take to one's heels; cut and run
Classic Sentence:
1  You would almost as soon have expected him to turn out of his bunk without his nose as without his pipe.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
2  He lay down on a wide bunk that stretched across the end of the room.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  He lay in his bunk pondering upon it.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
4  He sprang from the bunk and began to pace nervously to and fro.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
5  Took larboard watch eight bells last night; was relieved by Abramoff, but did not go to bunk.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  The few sleepers below in their bunks were often startled by the sharp slapping of their tails against the hull, within a few inches of the sleepers' hearts.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
7  The newcomer went to the bunks and inspected the blankets; he lifted up the mattress, and then dropped it with an exclamation.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
8  Out of an army of a hundred thousand we must expect at least twenty thousand wounded, and we haven't stretchers, or bunks, or dressers, or doctors enough for six thousand.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XX
Example Sentence:
1  A lot of people bunk off early on Friday.
2  The bunk mattress was hard, the blankets prickly and slightly damp.
3  The train stopped with a violent jerk , nearly tipping me out of my bunk.
4  The twins sleep in a bunk bed.
5  A built-in bed or bunk, as on a ship or a train.
6  Fully clothed, he fell across his bunk and was instantly asleep.
7  He lay in his bunk under a mound of blankets.