How to Use mattress in a Sentence

mattress

noun
  • Note that the thickness of the topper will add to the height of your mattress.
    Grace Wu, goodhousekeeping.com, 9 June 2023
  • The best part, though, might be how easy the pad is to take on and off your mattress.
    Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The tee is on a patch of natural grass the width of a large mattress.
    WIRED, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Live bed bugs in the seams, piping and folds of your mattress.
    Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The gourd, strapped over a mattress, was hauled on a trailer.
    María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2022
  • On the hottest nights, some of the city’s poor haul thin mattresses up to their rooftop to sleep.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The foam mattress is available in twin, full, queen, and king sizes.
    Claire Harmeyer, Peoplemag, 29 May 2023
  • Two bikes remained on the hill, as did a mattress in her tent.
    Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The bugs often hide in the seams of a mattress or box spring, or in cracks in a headboard or bed frame.
    Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Place it down to match its four corners to your mattress.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
  • One of the children in that unit was playing with a lighter in the bedroom and lit up a mattress.
    Nour Rahal, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Anguiano sleeps on the lone bed; Santana throws a mattress on the floor at night and sleeps next to him.
    Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2023
  • The sheets also remained in place while using the remote to move the mattress up and down.
    Michelle Rostamian, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Keep scrolling to check out more mattresses that are on sale for the Fourth of July.
    Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 28 June 2024
  • And that also means some great prime day mattress deals.
    Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 27 June 2023
  • Once the mattress was placed on the new queen bed frame, that first lay down was glorious.
    Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 25 July 2024
  • Is there a way to get a replacement mattress that fits?
    Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Backpacks and clothes hang from hooks on the cinderblock walls, and there were three small mattresses on the floor.
    Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Inside, her baby son slept on a thin mattress on the floor.
    Ann Neumann, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
  • Its mattresses are among the best in the world, but its sleep accessories are too.
    Mike Richard, Women's Health, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Size isn't the only thing this mattress has going for it though.
    Kurt Spurlock, Men's Health, 16 Dec. 2022
  • The brand claims that they are designed to fit mattresses up to 17 inches tall.
    Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Coco & Dash doesn’t sell mattresses and the case was thrown out by two judges.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 7 May 2023
  • So opt for this mattress topper to create a cool, airy bed.
    Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 17 July 2024
  • Other kids don’t have much furniture at home and sleep on a couch, mattress or on the floor.
    Allana Haynes, Baltimore Sun, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Like a legume under your mattress, this casting is a small thing that, as the evening wears on, comes to feel massive.
    Daniel D'addario, Variety, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Right now, the best deals are on mattresses from Casper, Nectar, and Tuft & Needle.
    Sarah Madaus, SELF, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Officers found the infant on a mattress on the floor in the living room, where she was pronounced dead.
    The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Each cabin has no amenities other than bunk beds with all-weather mattresses, a wood-burning stove, a sink without faucets, a pot and a pan, plus a table and a chair.
    John Carlisle, Detroit Free Press, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Hybrid and innerspring mattresses have coils that circulate warm air out of the mattress.
    Rachael Harris, Architectural Digest, 31 Oct. 2024

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