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

A discarded mattress leaned against a tree, with a nightstand nearby.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 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

Slamming it closed, I toss it on my nightstand, which knocks off the folder of Pops’s puzzles, which of course lands on its end, dumping the loose paper every which way.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam