"cot by" is not a grammatically correct phrase on its own.
It could be part of a sentence, such as "He slept on a cot by the window," but it would need to be accompanied by additional words to make a complete sentence. "Cot by" is not a conventional phrase or expression in written English and would likely not be used in formal writing. It could potentially be used in creative or informal writing if the context calls for it. For example: "The campfire was surrounded by cots, arranged in a circle."
After the fourth time, I don't bother taking off my mask before lying down on a cot by our team's Humvee, hoping to get a little sleep.
(Prices range from $10 for a Marfa Brands soap to $2,200 for a saddle leather cot by Jamey Garza; the Constance Holt pillows, above, are $300 to $400 each).
In his cot by the window, he gazed up at the wedged plaster of the ceiling, listening to the soft breath of the wind outside, and the absence of his mother, which had a sound all its own — no quiet shuffling of papers or clink of coffee cups, no sliding of the liquor-cabinet door.
Smoky was kept tied to my cot by a parachute shroud when I was away in daytime.
Most of the random and high risk control infants were in a cot by the parents' bed for the last sleep (51%and55%51%and55%
However, our models predict that 88% of the deaths that occurred while bed sharing would probably not have occurred had the baby been placed on its back in a cot by the parents' bed.
They use sleeping bags that are often attached to the cots by Velcro strips to prevent Olsson's brand of rude awakening.
Far from shunning the city shelters that serve as points of entry and assessment, city figures show, homeless men have been routinely exceeding the supply of regular beds this winter, spilling into makeshift cots by as many as 50 a night, in violation of court-ordered shelter standards.
In the light of the selective pressure to minimize biosynthetic cots by reducing the size of highly expressed proteins we reason that proteins that are expressed to high levels despite a large size may be especially interesting from a biological function perspective.
More than one mourner napped on a cot provided by the Armory.
He gets around on an old bicycle and sleeps on a cot surrounded by filing cabinets containing every negative of every shot he has ever taken.
