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

And most fragile and compelling of all: sitting in a high chair and wearing a nightdress, a monkey reaches out its hand to grasp the arm of the otherwise unseen person who is spoon-feeding it.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 27, 2019

“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

A cool gust of air swept through her thin nightdress and caressed her face, an exquisite relief from the stale and heavy air of the house.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny