nightstand

Example Sentences

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Unlike a wearable, which is easy enough to leave on your nightstand, the loo is something you can’t forget to use.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025

The pain in my forehead was sharp, as if I had just slammed it against the nightstand.

From Slate • Nov. 3, 2024

She went to her parents' bedroom where Carty found $1,100 in U.S. dollars in her mother’s nightstand.

From Salon • Apr. 18, 2024

If you don’t have an altar, you can make the card the picture on your phone’s home screen or tape a photocopy of it on your nightstand.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2024

In the morning they woke groggy, drunken from so much rest, and Mrs. McCullough had glanced at the clock on her nightstand and realized it was ten thirty.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng