How to Use bedfellow in a Sentence

bedfellow

noun
  • The sweet and the spicy make for nice bedfellows on the plate.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2024
  • This has led to some strange bedfellows.
    — Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Forget those strange bedfellows who have been rumored to buy the team.
    — SI.com, 19 July 2017
  • But the strange bedfellows were happy to have the common ground.
    — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
  • At first blush, motor oil and golf equipment may seem like strange bedfellows.
    — Mike Dojc, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
  • These coalition talks can take months, and getting the wrong bedfellows can be costly.
    — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Or consider the strange bedfellows made by the war in Afghanistan.
    — Emma Ashford, Foreign Affairs, 24 Aug. 2021
  • The fish tapeworm has long been an intestinal bedfellow of mankind.
    — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2011
  • This 12-team playoff makes for strange bedfellows.
    — Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2025
  • But aerial bombardment makes for strange bedfellows among the bombed.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 12 Mar. 2026
  • For the next seven years, these strange bedfellows are joining forces and must learn to work together.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 26 Apr. 2018
  • That makes for some interesting bedfellows, by the way.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • In essence, art and commerce are not natural bedfellows.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 8 Dec. 2025
  • 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 situation has made for some of the oddest bedfellows in the culture wars.
    — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Anger is often the easiest emotion to access and blame is its bedfellow.
    — Natashia Deón, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 Nov. 2021
  • As the saying goes, politics makes strange bedfellows.
    — Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Given the stakes for the internet and firearms industries, look for some strange bedfellows.
    — Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 9 May 2018
  • And this isn’t the only area where strange bedfellows make for policy consensus.
    — Maria Flynn, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Swagger is out and socialism is in, and socialism makes for strange bedfellows.
    — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 29 Nov. 2025
  • So Netflix and Comcast might, at first glance, appear to be strange bedfellows.
    — Lara O’Reilly, WSJ, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The result has been an incomplete picture of how and when ants and fungi became bedfellows.
    — Byariana Remmel, science.org, 3 Oct. 2024
  • There’s a clear irony here — WhatsApp and Meta make for uneasy bedfellows.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Misery may acquaint a man with strange bedfellows, as William Shakespeare wrote.
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Mocha pinstripe trousers with subtle side darts and a baby blue track jacket sound like unlikely bedfellows.
    — Alison Syrett Cleary, InStyle, 18 Jan. 2026
  • But the pair have a grudging mutual respect that makes for a fun, strange-bedfellows partnership.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 4 May 2026
  • On Thursday the party said the disagreements with its bedfellow had become too much.
    — NBC News, 11 Aug. 2019
  • As sports betting moves out of the shadows in the United States, strange bedfellows might be exposed.
    — New York Times, 2 July 2018
  • Seemingly strange bedfellows are making the case to protect public lands from auction.
    — Joanna Allhands, AZCentral.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Duggan notes that chocolate brown’s newest (and most flattering) bedfellow is a pale, powdery blue.
    — Hannah Coates, Vogue, 9 Dec. 2025

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