How to Use night table in a Sentence

night table

noun
  • Dig up any trophies or special ribbons and splay them across your night table.
    — Marissa Miller, Teen Vogue, 5 Oct. 2017
  • My daughter has grand visions for a canopy bed and a night table with a butterfly lamp.
    — Ronda Kaysen, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The sight of that distinctive handwriting on a note left on a night table.
    — Bob Greene, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2021
  • In terms of placement, Radon recommends placing your rug close to the night table.
    — Belle Duchene, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Oct. 2022
  • McAdoo’s fills up those Friday night tables by doing a wide range of things reasonably well.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 10 May 2018
  • Book a Saturday night table here for you and your sweetheart; the crowd is low-key, and the food is serious, but hearty.
    — Paul Oswell, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Mar. 2018
  • My only hoarding vice is saving birthday cards, letters, and ticket stubs that live in disorganized splendor in my night table drawer.
    — Lonnie Firestone, Glamour, 15 Jan. 2019
  • But if the Amazon Echo, flickering on a night table, prompts dystopian dread, the cell-phone butt dial belongs to a different genre.
    — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2019
  • Think chests that offer both storage solutions and décor, a writing desk that can be used in various spaces like in a bedroom as a night table, in a living room nook, or in an office.
    — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 24 Apr. 2026
  • When the price of something scarce—concert tickets, Saturday night tables, theme park rides—is set far below what the market would naturally bear, the scarcity doesn’t disappear.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2026
  • The second bedroom was converted into their office and is furnished with Raymond Loewy knockoffs, which include two bureaus, a night table, and desk, all in provoking lime green.
    — Catherine Laughlin, Philly.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • With so many restaurants opening since Commonwealth debuted in 2010, its trendiness has dissipated, and on a Wednesday night tables were available.
    — Michael Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Oct. 2017
  • For Germany though, the team sessions that in 2014 took place only in hotel conference rooms have been liberated into the devices that the players carry in their equipment bags and keep on their night tables.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 15 June 2018
  • The color of the sort of deep bruising normally associated with OSHA violations, Chicago’s uniforms herald long periods of bed rest and a night table groaning from the weight of so many prescription painkillers.
    — Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 16 Jan. 2026

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