How to Use bedfellow in a Sentence

bedfellow

noun

• Music and fashion have long made for excellent bedfellows—whether high or low, historical or modern.
  — Gemma A. Williams, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Despite his deviations from Trumpism, any notion that Vance and the Democrats could become bedfellows, however strange, is unlikely.
  — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024