nights

[ nahyts ]

/ naɪts /

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adverb

at or during the night regularly or frequently: He worked during the day and wrote nights.

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Origin of nights

before 900; Middle English nightes,Old English nihtes.See night, -s¹

Words nearby nights

night owl, night person, night raven, nightrider, night robe, nights, night safe, nightscape, night school, nightshade, nightshade family

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How to use nights in a sentence

After two nights in detention, he was scheduled to be deported back to Turkey on Monday.
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That is how we did the Talladega Nights and Stepbrothers deals.
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For nearly a decade on Comedy Central, four nights a week, a late night talk show host told a story.
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I know when Ferguson was going down those first few nights, I was watching feeds on the ground on Twitter, not CNN.
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I worked a lot of 11-7 shifts, and so had to stay awake, although most of the nights other people slept.
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Fatigue he never knew, and on one occasion he was said to have spent thirteen days and nights in the saddle.
Napoleon's Marshals|R. P. Dunn-Pattison
These strange things that Alf has been trying to teach me during the long nights I have learned—I understand.
The Giant of the North|R.M. Ballantyne
For the first time for 18 days and nights it has been found possible to withdraw the 29th Division from the fire fight.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I|Ian Hamilton
There were no more sleepless nights, fearing an attack from the dreaded rebel or the volunteer.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
She was ill, though, when they telegraphed for me; her life for three days and nights hanging on a shred.
Elster's Folly|Mrs. Henry Wood

British Dictionary definitions for nights

nights

/ (naɪts) /

adverb

informal at night, esp regularlyhe works nights

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