bedtime story

noun

First recorded in 1885–90

It can take pictures at get-togethers, organize your appointments, and even read your child a bedtime story.

A story narrated by a child and acted out by adults, it feels as fun and comfortingly familiar as our favorite bedtime story.

RS: I think it probably depends on what a person thinks of as a bedtime story.

I changed him into his pajamas and I read him a bedtime story.

And, when Brian has trouble sleeping, he requests that Larry read him a bedtime story.

David and Goliath became set as a bedtime story and lasted through the next six months almost without change.

In addition to the bedtime story, Peter found it necessary to feign great weariness in order to suggest a similar feeling in Pat.

Then always a few pages of the diary kept by the late Herr Wilner were read as a bedtime story.

Jessie and Henrietta were upstairs in Jessies room listening to the bedtime story.

They almost drowned out the first of the bedtime story with their excited voices.

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