nightdress

Example Sentences

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One morning the duchess was dashing about in her nightdress when she realised she had an audience.

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2022

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

Elinor was sitting up in bed, staring at the flowers on her nightdress, and not saying a word.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke