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

Pulling her nightdress down, making herself decent, she turned on her side to try to sleep again.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 10, 2018

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

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2018

"Does any woman wear a nightdress any more?" he wonders and the listeners call in.

From The Guardian • May 18, 2013

She put on her long dressing gown over her nightdress and stood there with the back of the gown draped over her arm.

From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd