nights

[ nahyts ]

adverb

1. at or during the night regularly or frequently:

   He worked during the day and wrote nights.

nights

/ naɪts /

adverb

1. informal.
   at night, esp regularly

   he works nights

Word History and Origins

Origin of nights¹

before 900; Middle English nightes, Old English nihtes. See night, -s ¹

Example Sentences

After two nights in detention, he was scheduled to be deported back to Turkey on Monday.

From The Daily Beast

That is how we did the Talladega Nights and Stepbrothers deals.

From The Daily Beast

For nearly a decade on Comedy Central, four nights a week, a late night talk show host told a story.

From The Daily Beast

I know when Ferguson was going down those first few nights, I was watching feeds on the ground on Twitter, not CNN.

From The Daily Beast

I worked a lot of 11-7 shifts, and so had to stay awake, although most of the nights other people slept.

From The Daily Beast

Fatigue he never knew, and on one occasion he was said to have spent thirteen days and nights in the saddle.

From Project Gutenberg

These strange things that Alf has been trying to teach me during the long nights I have learned—I understand.

From Project Gutenberg

For the first time for 18 days and nights it has been found possible to withdraw the 29th Division from the fire fight.

From Project Gutenberg

There were no more sleepless nights, fearing an attack from the dreaded rebel or the volunteer.

From Project Gutenberg

She was ill, though, when they telegraphed for me; her life for three days and nights hanging on a shred.

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Related Words

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