nightdress

Example Sentences

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While in graduate school in New York City, she experienced her first manic episode; she stayed awake for four days and found herself walking around Manhattan barefoot in a nightdress at 4 a.m.

From Slate • Jun. 30, 2021

And most fragile and compelling of all: sitting in a high chair and wearing a nightdress, a monkey reaches out its hand to grasp the arm of the otherwise unseen person who is spoon-feeding it.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 27, 2019

“I boiled up from bed/in my enormous nightdress, with my lungs full of burning/chrysanthemums.”

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2018

A woman who sleepwalked to a supermarket in just her nightdress looking for a watermelon has said she thinks her subconscious "got hungry".

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2017

The kitchen door had opened, and there stood Harry’s aunt, wearing rubber gloves and a housecoat over her nightdress, clearly halfway through her usual pre-bedtime wipe-down of all the kitchen surfaces.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling