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View synonyms for nightstand

nightstand

[ nahyt-stand ]

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Word History and Origins

Origin of nightstand1

First recorded in 1960–65; night + stand

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Example Sentences

She said, I take that card to my bed at night, I put it on the nightstand.

There is a reason why I keep a bb gun in my nightstand that could easily be mistaken for a handgun.

Mottola went to work and left a note with lyrics to an Elton John song on the nightstand: “Butterflies are free to fly/Fly away…”

Instead, he picked up the Bible on the nightstand and began “reading passages from Scripture aloud to them.”

Urn Burial is a bedside book, a nightstand book, one that begs to be read in a wind-lashed, lightning-struck manor.

He had taken for his device: "Never a lawyer," and for his armorial bearings a nightstand in which was visible a square cap.

He laid the pile of five-franc pieces on the old serving-woman's nightstand, and returned to his chamber without saying a word.

A scarlet tinder-box glowed among a pile of books on the nightstand.

She was at the moment running over in her mind a "situation" in a paper-covered novel turned down on her nightstand.

He drained his glass, put it on the nightstand, and closed his eyes to think.

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