night-light
noun
a usually dim light kept burning at night, as in a child's bedroom.
night-lights
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pluralof night-light.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Last week I stared at the darkened windows of the Norwegian embassy, lit only by a few night-lights.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2011
An enormous shed, unheated, dark except for a few short-wicked oil lanterns -- smudged night-lights.
From Time Magazine Archive
Just keep the night-lights on in the Oval Office.
From Time Magazine Archive
Another it was military night maneuvers—roaring motorcycles with sidecars, trucks with glowing green night-lights in their cabs, caissons carrying field artillery—all rattling past under the streetlamps.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
“The not-nice monsters use night-lights to trick me.”
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
