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

It’s the domestic details that capture the grief to come: a hall light no longer kept on all night, a half-drunk cup of tea, a tear in the seam of a nightdress.

From The Guardian • Dec. 3, 2016

Ludo Bagman was easily the most noticeable person Harry had seen so far, even including old Archie in his flowered nightdress.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling