Sentence examples for straw mattress from inspiring English sources

On a bed with a straw mattress".

To the right of door, a cot with a thin straw mattress, dirty blanket, and a lumpy pillow without a case placed at the end nearest the door.

The early one will have a wooden shelf for a bed, maybe a straw mattress, a table with a candle and a bucket for a toilet.

Khatun Sheikh sat outside of her home on a straw mattress, spreading a layer of wheat in front of her.

Last night, they stayed in a small wooden trailer attached to the back of the van, equipped with a straw mattress, blankets and pillows.

They had spent the previous night in a small wooden trailer attached to the back of the van, equipped with a straw mattress, blankets and pillows.

By April 1942 half a million people lived there, many on filthy straw mattresses directly on the ground.

They kept us like animals, lying on straw mattresses in tiny rooms with closed windows, notwithstanding the terrible heat.

He was glad to escape the ghetto as it shrank, with the people crammed like sardines, and the stench of carbon lamps and sweaty straw mattresses.

Conditions were improving under a new director from an earlier stage, when an unpublished official report condemned neglect, terrible food, and elderly, incontinent patients lying on straw mattresses described as reduced to manure.

Listing the contents of a backpack (magnet, chloric acid, machete) or yearning for the absent beloved, his voice caresses the film's portraits of soon-to-be-evacuees — a woman snipping rose petals from pink Styrofoam; two brothers stuffing straw mattresses, oaken faces buffed with sweat — like melancholy music.