How to Use bedfellow in a Sentence

bedfellow

noun
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  • The sweet and the spicy make for nice bedfellows on the plate.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2024
  • But the strange bedfellows were happy to have the common ground.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Or consider the strange bedfellows made by the war in Afghanistan.
    — Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The involvement of Comcast and Mr. Allen in a deal is a case of strange bedfellows.
    — Joe Flint, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Forget those strange bedfellows who have been rumored to buy the team.
    — SI.com, 19 July 2017
  • And in a case of strange bedfellows, the NYPD joined with a litany of anti-police critics as the complainers.
    — Bradley Tusk, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Yeah, there’s a weird strange-bedfellows thing going on.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 16 July 2018
  • As sports betting moves out of the shadows in the United States, strange bedfellows might be exposed.
    — New York Times, 2 July 2018
  • The situation has made for some of the oddest bedfellows in the culture wars.
    — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • For the next seven years, these strange bedfellows are joining forces and must learn to work together.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The fish tapeworm has long been an intestinal bedfellow of mankind.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2011
  • Butte County is full of strange and extreme bedfellows.
    — Spud Hilton, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2018
  • So Netflix and Comcast might, at first glance, appear to be strange bedfellows.
    — Lara O’Reilly, WSJ, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Given the stakes for the internet and firearms industries, look for some strange bedfellows.
    — Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 9 May 2018
  • Penalty kicks can be a cruel bedfellow for a soccer club.
    — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 6 June 2018
  • Cops and serial killers make strange bedfellows, but John Nolan might not have a choice on The Rookie season finale.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 May 2020
  • At its heart are two strange bedfellows: the Ennahda and Nidaa Tunis parties.
    — Monica Marks, Washington Post, 5 May 2017
  • On Thursday the party said the disagreements with its bedfellow had become too much.
    — NBC News, 11 Aug. 2019
  • Yet the array of threats facing the fossil fuel industry in 2020 could make for more strange bedfellows.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 6 Feb. 2020
  • These odd bedfellows all shared one thing this week: a publication date.
    — Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2023
  • Misery may acquaint a man with strange bedfellows, as William Shakespeare wrote.
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Of the votes in its favor, only two were from Democrats, Wiener and his co-author—further proof that the housing debate involves some strange bedfellows.
    — Nikil Saval, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2019
  • The largest protests since the Islamist anti-coup campaign in the aftermath of the 2013 military coup, the demonstrations were marked by a coalition of strange bedfellows.
    — Jannis Grimm, Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Then there’s also the scenario that the Fed could get an assist from an unlikely bedfellow — the banking crisis.
    — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Anger is often the easiest emotion to access and blame is its bedfellow.
    — Natashia Deón, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Strange bedfellows, some would think: a Baptist minister and a Jewish lawyer.
    — Larry Fultz, azcentral, 10 May 2017
  • But more so than most other spirits, mezcal makes an uneasy bedfellow for the mass market.
    — Esther Mobley, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The House vote on the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill saw some strange bedfellows in Central Florida.
    — Steven Lemongello, OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • One of the ironic offspring of these strange bedfellows is a Harp Hélu Foundation’s campaign against haggling over the price of handicrafts.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Politics can make strange bedfellows, and Mike Lindell, the guy who founded MyPillow, is getting a taste of that this week.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 4 Apr. 2018

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