Nightcap

//ˈnaɪtˌkæp//

"Nightcap" in a Sentence (12 examples)

I'm not bothered. It's just my usual nightcap. Having someone to drink with on occasion might be nice.

An old man in a nightcap opened the window and looked out. He called down angrily: "What do you want at this hour of night?"

He offered us a nightcap.

Tom offered us a nightcap.

I had a nightcap with Tom.

Winston wore a nightcap to stave off the cold.

I'll make myself a nightcap of whisky and lemon before heading to bed.

You know the other night, when I had dinner with Afro-Dite? When Jo was in San Francisco? Well we dropped into the Sinners, right, just for a nightcap.

This week I took up the relatively simple challenge of buying breakfast, lunch and dinner—and a nightcap—exclusively from konbini, as well as completing a couple of admin tasks.

"[…] and as a nightcap I happened to pick the copy of Plato […]"

Even better than breakfast, though, is nightcapping at the Waffle House . Nightcapping happens after the bars close, but before the southern sunrise: the hours when their jukeboxes play “Freebird” on a continual loop, […]

We nightcapped at the Four Seasons Hotel George V, on the most extravagant cocktails I'd ever purchased in life.

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