tentmate

Examples

• All

• Ed is my tentmate, lanky, mostly bald and purely gray, confident, competent.

  Fiction book (1997)

• Not as a tentmate in need of constant care.

  The Lost City of Z (2017)

• "Ever since you gave him that hunting knife and told him to murder his tentmates," she added for good measure.

  Fiction book (1990)

• "Some flowers would enliven your masterpiece." "When have you seen it?" "Got a good look," he said, "when I stopped by to make a pass at your tentmate."

  Fiction book (2000)

• "Yeah, I'm gonna murder my tentmates!" John's body bounced with an impatience to get started.

  Fiction book (1990)

• "An hour later, with no letters censored and with Ben and his slowly gathering tentmates in bed but still talking religion, the air alert siren pierced the air once again."

  Fiction book (1990)

• He ran a hand over Rusty's face, and it came away wet, and then, cold or not, Donner sat up on his heels and shined the light on his tentmate.

  Fiction book (2000)

• A boy dragged a duffel bag out of his tent; from the way he hung his head and tugged at the cord, it seemed to contain all the bad dreams he and his tentmates had dreamed for a month.

  Fiction book (1991)

• While camping in the mountains, I shared a tent with my tentmate, and we chatted by the campfire every night.

• My tentmate and I organized our gear carefully to make the best use of the limited space in our tent.

Synonyms

C

campmate

vstentmate

1 4.2

A person who shares a camp with other people

shares the same small sleeping shelter with a single other person

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology