Synonyms for nightly

Grammar : Adv

Spell : nahyt-lee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈnaɪt li

Définition of nightly

Origin : Old English nihtlic "nocturnal, of the night, at night;" see night + -ly (1). As an adverb, Middle English nihtlich, from the adjective.

adv each evening; after dark

Example sentences :

This was the sword which hung daily, nightly, over our heads.
Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic

Do we not nightly jumble events and personages and times and places, as these do daily?
Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens

Some that smote the breast nightly in the anguish of remorse.
Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine

He did all this in the absent manner of a man who did it nightly.
Extract from : « The Manxman » by Hall Caine

"You might change her sentry nightly," put in the Seneschal.
Extract from : « St. Martin's Summer » by Rafael Sabatini

And now she remembered the policeman who kept nightly vigil at the avenue crossing!
Extract from : « Nobody » by Louis Joseph Vance

On a high sandy terrace, a mile or so below, we pitch our nightly camp.
Extract from : « Afloat on the Ohio » by Reuben Gold Thwaites

Fortune favors us, almost nightly, with beautiful abiding-places.
Extract from : « Afloat on the Ohio » by Reuben Gold Thwaites

There are daily and nightly watches along the shores of the lake.
Extract from : « Oswald Langdon » by Carson Jay Lee

They built the nightly fires circling the camp to keep out the animals.
Extract from : « Project Mastodon » by Clifford Donald Simak

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