nightdress

Example Sentences

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From removing a dead pigeon from a flooding gutter to being caught in her nightdress by mesmerised tourists, living in a castle is no fairy tale, she said.

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

The girl stood for a moment there at the window, her nightdress billowing about her, poised to take flight, when her eyes met eyes.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny