Example Sentences

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Their team – all dressed in tasselled cowboy outfits – have nabbed the prize for best-dressed, tying with another team decked out in pink nighties and platinum blonde wigs.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

Cardigans and some of Martha's nighties are actually my gran's old stuff.

From Salon • May 16, 2024

Neither are they innocent victims in white nighties.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2023

When you want to go from ripped tights, nighties and smudged lipstick to something more suitable for the red carpet, Versace is the label.

From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2017

Savannah and I slept together in a double bed, wearing T-shirt nighties and hugging matching dolls.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter