How to Use one-night stand in a Sentence

one-night stand

noun
  • The one-night stand that changed our lives — in the best way.
    — Brian Anthony Hernandez, Peoplemag, 21 May 2024
  • The two quickly hit it off and have a one-night stand.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • So that inspired a script about a girl who had a one-night stand with some guy.
    — Chloe Lizotte, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Every screening and event is a one-night stand.
    — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 10 June 2026
  • Something in me knew this wasn’t going to be a one-night stand.
    — Sam Wilkinson, refinery29.com, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The shock only deepens when her one-night stand walks through the door.
    — Nasha Smith, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026
  • Or was Amelia’s hook-up with Cass more of a one-night stand?
    — Max Gao, Variety, 8 May 2026
  • That’s when every man has to have a one-night stand with a side barber.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 26 Oct. 2017
  • The days of the one-night stand are over because of the coronavirus.
    — Hannah Herrera Greenspan, chicagotribune.com, 5 Aug. 2020
  • If baseball is a romance, football is a one-night stand.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 11 June 2026
  • My husband has a 36-year-old daughter from a one-night stand.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 18 May 2024
  • After the pair sneak off to hook up in the coat room, all signs point to an empty one-night stand.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Sep. 2022
  • Most of the women who pop up are the band members’ girlfriends, wives, and one-night stands.
    — Vulture, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The idea of swiping to find the love of your life (or a one-night stand) on your mobile phone seemed alien.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The family trauma anchors what could have been a fizzy romp about a bad one-night stand.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2020
  • This pleasure gulf is not just relegated to one-night stands.
    — Laura Berman, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The moody, lovelorn track tells the story of a one-night stand over a breakneck Jersey-club beat.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2023
  • Cherry is a single 30-year-old who decides to have a one-night stand with a hot stranger.
    — Michael Stillwell, townandcountrymag.com, 28 May 2023
  • One is God for God is One— The only one in a one-night stand.
    — David Sedaris, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2018
  • Then the actor allegedly confessed to Stone about the one-night stand.
    — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The play saw the actors star as two strangers who have a drunken one-night stand after meeting at a wedding.
    — Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026
  • To make matters worse, Landon is her impulsive one-night stand.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2020
  • The pair starred as two strangers who had a drunken one-night stand after meeting at a wedding reception.
    — Vandana Pawa, Peoplemag, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Evie Moreno and Logan King had a memorable one-night stand.
    — Mia Sosa, PEOPLE, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Brette didn’t care that the hot popular guy was only offering a one-night stand, and that her peers would hear about it and judge.
    — Meredith Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Magazine saying the cause of their breakup was that Garfield had a one-night stand while dating Stone.
    — Lissete Lanuza Sáenz, StyleCaster, 21 Oct. 2024
  • What was supposed to be a shallow, toot-it-and-boot-it one-night stand has grown and flourished to something far more meaningful.
    — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Mia is the creative, bawdy one whose ideas are the lifeblood of the company’s sole standout product — a makeup kit for a one-night stand.
    — Garrett Mitchell, Detroit Free Press, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Mia is the creative, bawdy one whose ideas are the lifeblood of the company's sole standout product — a makeup kit for a one-night stand.
    — Garrett Mitchell, azcentral, 8 Jan. 2020
  • If Evan had kept his mouth shut about his one-night stand with Lucy, so many of the threads wouldn’t have ever been knotted in the story.
    — Dana Feldman, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026

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