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

During her bouts of depression, she’d leave money on her nightstand and we’d walk ourselves to Vons or Ralphs and buy anything we wanted.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 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

A few rows down, I spot Mom sitting on her bed, rifling through the drawer of her pine nightstand.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy