nights

/naɪts/ adverb A1

At night (during night-time, especially on a regular basis). · I work nights, my brother only afternoons, and my son days.

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## IX WINDY NIGHTS

“‘Because during the last few nights I have always, about three in the morning, heard a low, clear whistle.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 43 · B2

I’m nearly as impolite and disagreeable and ill-mannered as these two old Knickerbocker gents on each side of me that can’t sleep of nights because I bought in between ’em.”

Six stories from The Four Million, p. 9 · C1

I used to lie awake at nights and imagine things like that, because I didn’t have time in the day.

Anne of Green Gables, p. 16 · C1

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