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How to use hammock in a sentence

30 example sentences · noun, verb

Hammock means a swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet (1.8 meters) wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends. Example: “That looks like a good spot to sling up your hammock.”

Examples of hammock by meaning

verbTo lie in a hammock.

  • "I fancied that we — I and who? — hammocked among the summer breezes."1901, Yone Noguchi, The American Diary of a Japanese Girl (wiki article)

verbTo hang in a way that resembles a hammock.

  • "She hammocked their plaids between the table and the bed, then edged her way past Kenneth as she approached the central hearth."2013, Mary Jo Putney, Patricia Rice, Susan King, Christmas Roses: Love Blooms in Winter

verbTo make something be wrapped tight, like in a hammock.

  • "She hammocked her breasts into her bra, snapped it, hitched at it, and gave herself a profile glance in the mirror."1960, John D. MacDonald, The Only Girl in the Game

More sentences with hammock

  • That looks like a good spot to sling up your hammock.From the entry sling up
  • I call dibs on the hammock!From the entry dibs
  • I had a hammock and a basher, a rain sheet to go over where I was sleeping.2018, John-Paul Jordan, Joys of War. From the entry basher
  • Now it's all about doing the downward facing dog in a silk hammock.2011 August 19, The Guardian. From the entry downward-facing dog
  • Might it be awesome to see my classmates' expressions as I strut out sporting a banana hammock?2010, Josh Berk, The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin, Knopf, published 2010, →ISBN, page 19. From the entry banana hammock
  • Reba's smoothened youngened voice now offered sufficient room so it'd hammock all desire.2010, Allan Gurganus, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, page 579. From the entry youngen
  • I looked and saw that she and her hammock were covered in diarrhea.2009, Daniel Everett, Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes, page 47. From the entry diarrhea
  • The men first stored their hammocks, then went about sweeping and swabbing down the decks.2003, M. Hill Goodspeed, U.S. Navy: A Complete History. From the entry offcoming
  • The campsite is excellently made and there are rooved buildings for hammocks and tents.2002, Claire Boobbyer, Footprint Guatemala Handbook: The Travel Guide, Footprint Handbooks, →ISBN, page 330. From the entry rooved
  • In "hammocking," a new program is placed in the "saddle" between two established hits, or "tent poles."1995, Lee Bogart, Commercial Culture: The Media System and the Public Interest, page 227. From the entry saddle
  • Yesterday I lay in a bushrope hammock in an Indian house, finishing a flash-card lesson on numbers.1977, Merrill F. Unger, What Demons Can Do to Saints, Moody Publishers, published 1991. From the entry bushrope
  • My in-laws had a hammock that my older son adored.2024, Sarah Asermily, “A Blue Bird Day”, in Amy Newmark, editor, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Miracles, Angels & Messages from Heaven, Cos…. From the entry grandpie
  • Simulating the batik sling used by Balinese mothers, guests relax into aerial silk hammocks, most commonly used for antigravity yoga.2019 October 21, Lynn O'Rourke Hayes, “Family travel five: Treat yourself while on vacation”, in Chicago Tribune. From the entry antigravity yoga
  • Dharthi rolled herself into the hammock as if it were a scentproof, claw-proof cocoon and tried to sleep.2016, Jonathan Strahan, Neil Gaiman, Paolo Bacigalupi, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, volume 10. From the entry scentproof
  • I'd acquiesced gracefully, wondering wickedly what it would take to get him to ditch the board shorts for a banana hammock.2012, Carter Quinn, The Way Back, Dreamspinner Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 10. From the entry banana hammock
  • He taught us how to attach the clews to the ends of the hammock and then lash it between jack stays.2000, Ralph W Danklefsen, The Navy I Remember, Xlibris, page 21. From the entry clew
  • We had decent food, hammocks to sleep in,and were granted all privileges comportable with our position as prisoners.1932, Charles Nordhoff, James Norman Hall, Mutiny on the Bounty. From the entry comportable
  • As they come to themselves, they writhe in agony, so that their hammocks rock violently to and fro.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 10, page 63. From the entry come to oneself
  • Unlike hiking tents or hammocks, the bivvy bag only allows space for sleeping as it is just slightly bigger than a sleeping bag.2015, Anthonio Akkermans, The Complete Survival Shelters Handbook. From the entry bivvy bag
  • Hammocking is a frequently employed strategy.2005, Philippe Perebinossoff, Brian Gross, Lynne S Gross, Programming for TV, radio, and the Internet. From the entry hammocking
  • Indeed, the acceptance that hammocking and the mixed-schedule is in decline formed an important part of the BBC's argument for new digital channels.2004, Damian Tambini, Jamie Cowling, From public service broadcasting to public service communications. From the entry hammocking
  • No one, of course, has seen her, and Ned and Beetie are about to experience the hammocking, cradlesome shock that is the beginning of despair.1956, The Marble Orchard. From the entry cradlesome
  • The patient invariably falls down in a swoon and is carried like dead to his hammock, where he is tightly lashed with cords.1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 10, page 63. From the entry come to oneself
  • Either champ it out and post up on the cement or face-down in the sand or get out the hammock and hang it from a palm tree.2012 March 20, Heather Bramante, “Spring Break must-haves!”, in StudentCity Blog, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2016. From the entry champ
  • The communal area is constantly cruisey, whether you′re slung low in a hammock or sipping your BYO stubbie in the cool, cushioned area with a frayed map in hand.2009, Justine Vaisutis, Australia, Lonely Planet, page 384. From the entry stubbie
  • Grown-ups aren’t the only ones who love the sunny laziness of a hammock, so this one has been designed for children between the ages of four and ten.1947 April, House Beautiful, volume 89, number 4, page 77. From the entry rockabye
  • But after the little matter at the mess Billy Budd no more found himself in strange trouble at times about his hammock or his clothesbag or what not.1924, Herman Melville, chapter 12, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.. From the entry clothes bag

Meaning of hammock

  1. noun A swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet (1.8 meters) wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.
  2. noun A piece of land thickly wooded, and usually covered with bushes and vines.
  3. verb To lie in a hammock.

Full definition of hammock

Questions about hammock in a sentence

How do you use hammock in a sentence?
Hammock is used as a noun and verb. For example: “That looks like a good spot to sling up your hammock.”
What is a short sentence with hammock?
“Hammocking is a frequently employed strategy.”
What does hammock mean?
Hammock means a swinging couch or bed, usually made of netting or canvas about six feet (1.8 meters) wide, suspended by clews or cords at the ends.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hammock (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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