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Example sentences for "bunk"

Lexicographically close words:
bungler; bunglers; bungling; bungs; bunion; bunked; bunkered; bunkering; bunkers; bunkhouse
  1. All hands went below, where Scobell duly reported to the mate, a bunk was assigned to him and he was made one of the crew of the steam-packet "Virginia.

  2. It was rainy during the night; and although our bunk was in the gunner's room, it leaked in there very much.

  3. One night a strange old miner almost dead from hunger and hardship arrived at the bunk house.

  4. I think it's all bunk what you been tellin' us, Billee.

  5. He struggled to his feet, plainly showing how weak he was, swayed unsteadily for a moment and then staggered to a bench on the shady side of the bunk house not far from the corral.

  6. I had slung a cot, although there was a good mahogany bunk in the cabin.

  7. Saying which he withdrew his head; and after waiting a short time to see if he remained, I closed the port, and shuffled into my bunk again.

  8. No sensible person would sleep in a bunk at sea when he could swing in a hammock or cot.

  9. I was glad to find that the old man had got out of his bunk and was standing at the door.

  10. In a bunk to the left of the door lay an old man with white hair.

  11. A man, lying in his bunk with his face towards me, started up and sent his legs, encased in blanket trousers and brown woollen stockings, flying out.

  12. I was seated erect in my bunk when the men entered, and I immediately exclaimed, pointing to the irons, "I am glad you have thought of me.

  13. If he had only kept still; if he had only told them to go to the devil when they came to rush him out of his bunk because the ship was sinking!

  14. They turned me out of my bunk in the middle watch to look at her sinking," he pursued in a reflective tone.

  15. You boys kick that packing-box to pieces and then pull the straw out of that bunk and touch a match to it.

  16. When he found out who we were, he stopped swearing and got up out of the bunk to put his hand on Mart Kirgan's shoulder.

  17. Had you made a mistake and gone to MacGregor's bunk instead?

  18. Toma can occupy the lower bunk next to mine.

  19. I'll take the lower bunk in the corner near the door.

  20. When all was still in the room, MacGregor crept over to Dewberry's bunk to commit the robbery.

  21. I lay in my bunk and listened to the wind in the humming rigging, while the moonlight, shining through the porthole, filled the cabin with dim shadows.

  22. So, with a feeling of entire satisfaction, I had a hot bath in my cabin bathroom on the Roosevelt, and then turned in to my bunk for a long and refreshing sleep.

  23. I never heard of this rajah bunk before in my life!

  24. Youse gets into deir bunk room, pretendin' youse have made a mistake, an' youse leaves de door open behind youse.

  25. Their first work was to get him back upon the Noank and into a bunk in Captain Avery's cabin, by Morgan's especial direction.

  26. A deep cupboard under the captain's bunk was at once thrown open, and its contents were interesting.

  27. Fitzpatrick is turning out a wrecking crew from the bunk shanties, and he sent me up to call you!

  28. After that he remembered nothing until he awoke to blink at the sun shining into the little bunk room at the back of the pay office; awoke with a start to find Fitzpatrick handing him a telegram scrawled upon a bit of wrapping-paper.

  29. When the contractor had welcomed and fed them, Ballard rolled into the nearest bunk and went to sleep to make up the arrearages, leaving his guest to smoke alone.

  30. Bigelow was wrestling with this fresh bit of mystery when he went to find his bunk in the commissary; it got into his dreams and was still present when the early morning call of the camp was sounded.

  31. He was pretty badly shaken up, and I told him he'd better hunt the bunk shanty and rest his nerves awhile.

  32. At the headquarters commissary Blacklock tumbled into the handiest bunk and was asleep when he did it.

  33. The owner of the tiger threatened old Bunk with the law, and asked for a hundred guineas.

  34. Old Bunk roared: "Has he killed the boy, d'yer say?

  35. When I said this the beast, attracted by the noise of voices over the side, got up and looked over the bulwark rail at the men, and old Bunk instantly saw it.

  36. She stepped to the side of the bunk I was in the habit of using, and lifting the knife plunged it once, deep and hard--then came away, so nimbly that it was with difficulty I made room for her in the doorway to pass.

  37. Old Bunk went forward into the bows, and the brig flapped forwards creaking like a basket on the small roll of the shallow water.

  38. The midshipmen snored, and coats and smallclothes hanging from the bunk stanchions wearily swung sprawling out and in, like bodies dangling from gallows in a gale of wind.

  39. Bunk started William's mother upon him for compensation for the loss of her boy, and shortly afterwards the showman went broke.

  40. The boat came to a stand when within easy hailing distance, as though old Bunk was taking a view of me as I sat in the top, and was wondering what I did there.

  41. In a word, Bunk was a skipper of a type that is fast perishing off our home waters.

  42. You might better be making that bunk over, m'son, than trying to take the whole blamed town apart and put it together again, like you was doing last night.

  43. The curtain before his bunk was drawn suddenly aside--and Larry the Bat's fingers, where his hand was carelessly hidden by his body tightened upon his automatic.

  44. It seemed to go on a long while, and at last I leaned out of my bunk and see Bill bending over a bucket and washing himself and using bad langwidge.

  45. The clock ticked on the mantlepiece, and heavy snoring proceeded both from the mate's bunk and the state-room.

  46. He put 'is back up agin a bunk and pulled his-self together.

  47. And Bill sat there and took it all quiet, and by-and-by he took 'is things up and put them in Joe's bunk without a word.

  48. Built more like a bull than a man, 'e was, and when he was in his tantrums the best thing to do was to get out of 'is way or else get into your bunk and keep quiet.

  49. He wasn't fairly woke till he was hauled out of 'is bunk an' set down opposite them two pore black fellers an' told to make 'em white again.

  50. He got out of his bunk and lit the lamp, and an angry and very drunken member of Her Majesty's foot forces became visible.

  51. Joe, who was in the next bunk to him, and I saw Bill's eyes screw up tight, and 'e suddenly fell fast asleep.

  52. Then 'e jumped into his bunk again and buried 'is face in the clothes and rocked hisself and moaned as if he was dying.

  53. Swan was barefooted, just as he had leaped from his bunk in the sheep-wagon to ride to the fire.

  54. Since the raid on his flock Mackenzie had given up his bunk in the wagon for a bed under a bush on the hillside nearer the sheep.

  55. Mackenzie found the rifle that Sullivan had provided Reid for his defense under the bunk in the wagon, with ammunition enough to withstand a siege.

  56. He was tired of Dad Frazer's wagon, and the greasy bunk in it.

  57. When I got in, I found Tom lying in his bunk with his face to the wall, too dispirited apparently to answer my consolations.

  58. After his departure, which must have been about four in the morning, I turned into my bunk and watched Tom sitting by the fire splicing two sticks together, until I fell asleep.

  59. We had a great wood fire crackling and sputtering on the hearth, by which I was sitting mending a whip, while Tom was lying in his bunk groaning disconsolately at the chance which had led him to such a place.

  60. Old Specie took it down by the bunk house.

  61. There's old Splinter at the bunk house--drawing our pictures, I'll bet a dollar.

  62. We'll have a dummy rigged up in the bunk house.

  63. The Little Doctor, as the bunk house had christened her, was away attending the State Medical Examination at Helena.

  64. He's down in the bunk house now, I guess.

  65. Miss Della Whitmore gazed meditatively down the hill at the bunk house.

  66. A scurrying group of horsemen burst over the hill behind the house, dashed half down the slope, and surrounded the bunk house with blood-curdling yells.

  67. The senator smiled reassuringly at the Little Doctor and got Chip out of the house and down in the bunk house with Weary, and whatever means he used to make Chip "behave himself," they certainly were a success.

  68. Miss Della Whitmore tidied the kitchen and dusted the sitting room, and then, having a pair of mischievously idle hands and a very feminine curiosity, conceived an irrepressible desire to inspect the bunk house.

  69. He was down in the bunk house, thinking things.

  70. He went down the hill to the bunk house, holding the unlighted cigarette still in his fingers.

  71. He even threatened to stop in the bunk house and said he didn't feel like dancing, but was brought into line by weight of numbers.

  72. This brought all the men to the bunk house door as the terror-stricken little Jew flung himself into their arms.

  73. Owen thanked me for the compliment and went out to the bunk house to interview Robert Reed, now in charge of the hay gang.

  74. He was so excited when he heard that an insane person was in the vicinity he asked to sleep at the bunk house with the men.

  75. La Monte was there, and after a futile effort on Bill's part to get him to talk the boys retired to the bunk house and sent for Owen.

  76. Suddenly I thought of my conversation with Mrs. Parker, and told Owen of the finding of the passage under the bunk house.

  77. The third year after Ethel and John came here, John, he raised such a big crop of potatoes the cellar was plumb full, so he had Dad tear out some of the old bins under the bunk house to make some larger ones.

  78. You couldn't get him up to the bunk house now if you was to drag him.

  79. They were gathered now in the long, whitewashed adobe bunk house, and had finished their sad task of burying Thomas, victim of an assassin's bullet.

  80. One sank against a broken-down bunk in one corner, reamed through the upper right arm and chest.

  81. Roger tumbled out of the bunk and Tom came rushing out of the shower wrapped in a towel.

  82. He stretched out on a bunk and moments later was asleep, while the giant ship hurtled through the dark void toward its destination with a thousand electronic hands and eyes to guide it safely across the immense gulf of space.

  83. Astro, grabbing Roger who was asleep in his bunk and then banging on the shower door where Tom was taking a shower.

  84. The ground floor was one vast room, presumably the bunk house for those men not having homes of their own.

  85. Under Ham's direction the aerial bunk was begun, and it very soon showed signs of being built by a master builder.

  86. We'll build an addition," suggested Phil, "a bunk house addition.

  87. These were carefully trimmed before they were handed up to Ham, who was in the bunk doing the thatching.

  88. As he stepped into the bunk he touched something, then jumped back with an exclamation.

  89. You remember the tricks he pulled off the day we moved the stuff over from Fairview on the donkeys--sneaked up in the bunk after dinner and went to sleep.

  90. The aerial bunk was all completed before dinner time, except thatching it with balsam boughs, and all hands would help at that after the noon meal.

  91. Sleepy as he dropped down out of the new bunk to inspect the work the others had been doing since noon.

  92. The early afternoon saw the completion of the fine, big bed--big enough for five people; and as the fellows became too tired to work, the bunk became more and more popular.

  93. The shakedown was too dry to be comfortable, and Ham's aerial bunk had not yet been completed.

  94. What ye both need is a good sleep, so I'm goin' to ask you, Miss, to take my bunk over yon in the corner.

  95. The noise of their arrival awoke Dane, who sprang from his bunk greatly refreshed after his sound sleep.

  96. Jack really was out of temper, so no objections were made to his going to his bunk as soon as he had finished supper!

  97. When he found what he wanted to he threw himself on the bunk where he had slept and read steadily for an hour or more.

  98. If it is too far for me to walk back," Ned laughed, "you may give me a bunk on the floor!

  99. Early in the evening Lovegrove picked out a place, spread his blanket and was about to lie down when a shell went under his temporary sleeping bunk without exploding.

  100. A commencement was made March 21st, the earth taken out secreted underneath bunks and carried outside when an opportunity offered; the opening was covered by a bunk when work was suspended.

  101. When they had gone I went to the bunk where Wentworth, who heard the conversation, was lying, and urged him to start immediately for the swamp in rear of Elliot’s Plantation.


  102. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bunk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.