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Example sentences for "nightgown"

Lexicographically close words:
nightdresses; nighte; nighted; nightes; nightfall; nightgowns; nighthawks; nightie; nightingale; nightingales
  1. Then she twisted from him, making a memory of the film of nightgown that had kept his hands away from her.

  2. For a moment, he allowed his eyes to finger her body, letting them spear through the wrap around robe and the flimsy nightgown to where warm flesh ebbed and flowed against the sigh of silk.

  3. She had slipped into a nightgown that, in the moonlight, was more alluring than if she had been nude.

  4. The depth of her depression had a physical effect, making the mere folding of her nightgown an act that required a strong effort.

  5. In her blue flannel nightgown she knelt in front of a chair and said her prayers.

  6. Change your nightgown and leave your bed to the pussy and come snuggle in with me," said Dum.

  7. Her nightgown was on the floor and her clothes which I had seen her throw on the chair near her bed were gone.

  8. Dete left another little bundle for you with a nightgown and other small things in it, which you will find at the bottom of the cupboard if you want them.

  9. There in her little white nightgown stood Heidi, with bare feet, staring with wild eyes at the lights and the revolvers, and trembling from head to foot like a leaf in the wind.

  10. Meanwhile Laura sat in her thin nightgown and shivered, feeling the cold intensely after the great heat of the day.

  11. Laura rose on her elbow and looked at her sister: Pin was standing in the doorway holding her nightgown to her, in such a way as to expose all of her thin little legs.

  12. He opened a valise, took out a clean though tattered nightgown she had brought, and spread it on the bed.

  13. But it had to be done, so, getting out a nightgown from a bureau drawer, she proceeded to wake the sleeper.

  14. How sweet the frills of her nightgown were!

  15. Martin came after them, stripping off his white wool nightgown so fast that buttons flew.

  16. Golden Pot firmly toward her, and threw out of it handfuls of glittering earth on the Archivarius; but as it touched the nightgown the earth changed into flowers, which rained down on the ground.

  17. The whole form was higher, statelier; the wide nightgown spread itself like a royal mantle in broad folds over his breast and shoulders; and through the white locks, which lay on his high open brow, there was wound a thin band of gold.

  18. She stared blankly at her nephew, and then, holding her unbuttoned nightgown at the neck, she strode across the corridor into Paul's room.

  19. A connecting door was pushed open and a tall, slender boy in a white nightgown stood in the moonlight which streamed through a vine-hung window and fell on the floor.

  20. We have heard, however, of one young lady at least who does by night what she will not do by day, for she has given up her nightgown in favour of pyjamas.

  21. So he trotted along in his silky, white nightgown till he found Baby Ray on the porch in mamma's arms.

  22. So mamma took the apple and the egg and the milk and the chips and the water to the house, and there was Baby Ray in his nightgown looking out of the window.

  23. BABY'S TOES Dear little bare feet, Dimpled and white, In your long nightgown Wrapped for the night.

  24. But she had gone out for a little walk, so he shut the door, dressed himself in the old woman's nightgown and nightcap, and lay down in the bed to wait for Red Riding-Hood.

  25. He registered distantly that he was in bed with a woman he didn't know, but her warm body and the soft cotton nightgown under his hand made that unimportant.

  26. She had changed into a white nightgown and brushed out her hair.

  27. She lifted her nightgown and pulled his hand to her stomach.

  28. He left off his undershirt that very day, and next morning he stood in a draught in his nightgown for quite a long time.

  29. Alice had kept on her clothes under her nightgown when Dora wasn't looking, and presently we got down, creeping past Father's study, and out at the glass door that leads on to the veranda and the iron steps into the garden.

  30. As she sat up, clutching her nightgown to her breast, she looked suddenly pinched and old.

  31. But once in her nightgown she did not get into bed.

  32. Alice had made a nightgown and a fascinating coat for Miss Dolly, and Ernest had bought a marvelous trunk for the young lady.

  33. Chicken Little flew down the stairs in her nightgown to have a peep at the fascinating table.

  34. But he got into the boots and walked all round with them after his nightgown was on, and the nightgown hung down all over the rubber boots.

  35. Perhaps the old gentleman in the flannel nightgown really was a potential African despot.

  36. She borrowed a nightgown of extraordinary simplicity, a shirt waist of an ancient mode, and a number of other things.

  37. She tucked her feet under her nightgown and the red shawl.

  38. The someone was sitting upon the battered footstool, and was dressed in her nightgown and wrapped up in a red shawl.

  39. Susan made the best appearance, for her blue serge suit had been taken out dry when she herself was lifted from the sinking wreck; the nightgown served as a blouse.

  40. I put the--the present for you in that funny little bundle of yours, under one of the folds of the nightgown or whatever it is you've got wrapped on the outside.

  41. When she was in her nightgown she glanced in at her cousin.

  42. She folded her nightgown neatly about her legs, thrust them down into the bed.

  43. Susan put her bundle on the sofa, opened it, found nightgown and toilet articles on top.

  44. She has on only her nightgown and a wrapper over it; her bare feet are thrust into slippers.

  45. She is a pretty young woman with bobbed hair, fortunately, for she has just got out of bed, and is in her nightgown and a wrapper.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nightgown" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.