Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: nightly
IPA transcription: [n'aɪtli]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: nightly
    Meaning: happening every night; "nightly television now goes on until 3:00 or 4:00 a.m."
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: nightly, every_night
    Meaning: at the end of each day; "she checks on her roses nightly"
Usage examples
  • This part has been strengthened by the nightly rounds of inspection.
  • Let your follower come nightly to me for instructions; let him enter the gate and remain in the garden near it.
  • And at McCloskey's the boys were knocking the balls idly into the pockets against the hour for the nightly game.
  • Now we were compelled to trespass upon the country of hostile tribes and were harassed by them almost daily and nightly.
  • Or do you not know that all the immoralities and excesses of which we dream nightly are crimes committed daily by waking persons?
  • The bazaar was a triumphant and unparalleled success, and, of the seven stalls, the Sunday-school stall stood first each night in the nightly returns.
  • My eucalyptus or blue gum grove was down near the big sycamore, and opposite the bare knoll where Romulus and the burrowing owls had their nightly battles.
  • From that day things went from bad to worse, and every morning crowds presented themselves before the emperor, complaining of the robberies, murders, and other crimes that were committed nightly in the streets.
  • For the present, let us repeat: dream distortion is a consequence of the censorship practised by accredited tendencies of the ego against those wish-impulses that are in any way shocking, impulses which stir in us nightly during sleep.
  • Who has not heard of Mount Olympus,--that high abode of all the powers of type, that favoured seat of the great goddess Pica, that wondrous habitation of gods and devils, from whence, with ceaseless hum of steam and never-ending flow of Castalian ink, issue forth fifty thousand nightly edicts for the governance of a subject nation?