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How to use bedtime in a sentence

28 example sentences · noun

Bedtime means the time or hour at which one retires to bed in order to sleep. Example: “The pages in his favourite book were dog-eared from years of reading it at bedtime.”

Examples of bedtime by meaning

nounThe time or hour at which one retires to bed in order to sleep.

  • It’s long past bedtime now.1908 September 23, “In Turkey”, in A[rthur] H[amilton] Folwell, editor, Puck, volume LXIV, number 1647, New York, N.Y.: Keppler &...
  • I read every evening, sometimes late into the night, with the help of kerosene lamps, often secretly, past my bedtime.2004, Vartan Gregorian, The Road to Home: My Life and Times, page 55

More sentences with bedtime

  • The pages in his favourite book were dog-eared from years of reading it at bedtime.From the entry dog-eared
  • Try not to wind up the kids too much right before bedtime.From the entry wind up
  • I think I'll just go to bed, it's bedtime for me.From the entry go to bed
  • Their youngest son always put up a fight when it was bedtime.From the entry put up a fight
  • I ChatGPTed a bedtime story for my son.From the entry ChatGPT
  • She cuddled the infant before bedtime.From the entry cuddle
  • The finality of my father's death suddenly hit me: there would be no more bedtime stories, no more games of catch in the back yard.From the entry finality
  • She stayed up past her bedtime.From the entry stay up
  • Switch the lights out at bedtime.From the entry switch out
  • The risk of fire was an ever-present danger, and every night at bedtime they performed the ritual of checking that every candle and lantern had been snuffed out.From the entry snuff out
  • It was as crumpled as it had been when I had taken it off at bedtime.2014, Glynis Dunnit, Girls Scout for Boys, Academy Incorporated Limited, →ISBN, page 48. From the entry necker
  • "It's getting close to Timmy's bedtime, so we won't stay long.2012, Linda Townsley, The Dream Singer, WestBow Press, published 2012, →ISBN. From the entry landwhale
  • Near bedtime, about 10 p.m. or so, I sit on the pot.2011 December 27, Ken Jacuzzi with Diane Holloway, “This Is Your Life, Ken Jacuzzi!”, in Jacuzzi: A Father’s Invention to Ease a Son’s…. From the entry pot
  • He adores his bedtime baseball stories, even at his ripe old age.2009, Bob Mitchell, Once Upon a Fastball. From the entry scarily
  • Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits.2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34. From the entry fare
  • While reading a bedtime story to my four-year old grandson, Ezekiel, he was leaning against me and rubbing my elbow.2013, Lynna Ampe, “[Ladies Devotions]”, in Living Daily in the Word: Devotions by the Ladies of the Calvary Chapel Living Word, Irvine…. From the entry bumpery
  • Days filled with feeding, diaper changes, naptimes and bedtimes, trying to find a moment to go to the bathroom.1988 February 14, Connie Chan, “Motherhood, Lesbian-Style”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 30, page 5. From the entry naptime
  • But you, you’re a doctor, and doctors have bedtimes.1974, Aphra, page 50. From the entry lessgo
  • The night air was passably cool and he strolled through the town at a measured pace, killing time till bedtime.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 14. From the entry kill time
  • If I say 'No,' will you tell me that in that case I shall be very hungry by bedtime, or something?1911, Ian Hay [pen name; John Hay Beith], chapter 9, in A Safety Match. From the entry old chestnut
  • "Isn't that past the crumb-crunchers' bedtime?"2008, Cathy Pickens, Hush My Mouth, Thomas Dunne Books, published 2008, →ISBN, page 204. From the entry crumb-cruncher
  • Articles offer advice about things like booksmaxxing (which is just reading) and sleepmaxxing (which blends questionable bedtime hacks with basic sleep-hygiene stuff that doctors have been saying for years).2025 October 11, Nitsuh Abebe, “The Suffix That Tells Us to Ruthlessly Optimize Everything”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York…. From the entry sleepmaxx
  • That window between dinner and bedtime where kids are wound up, parents want to wind down, and it feels like the longest hour or two ever.2022 October 17, Jenn Cox, “Age-by-age Guide to Surviving Witching Hour”, in Kim Shiffman, editor, Today’s Parent, Toronto, Ont.: St.…. From the entry witching hour
  • Establishing a nighttime routine is super important (even when you have a rebellious twonager on your hands), which is why we created our toddler bedtime routine chart.2018 July 20, “Bedtime routine chart for a 2 year old: Our routine chart”, in Bottles and Banter, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2024. From the entry twonager
  • Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children’s brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34. From the entry time
  • I like to think that Old Grandma Sperm Whales tell bedtime stories to the little whalings all about the deviousness and monstrosity that humankind used to inflict upon their ancestors.2009, plasticactus.livejournal.com/1924.html?thread=4228. From the entry whaleling

Meaning of bedtime

  1. noun The time or hour at which one retires to bed in order to sleep.

Full definition of bedtime

Questions about bedtime in a sentence

How do you use bedtime in a sentence?
Bedtime is used as a noun. For example: “The pages in his favourite book were dog-eared from years of reading it at bedtime.”
What is a short sentence with bedtime?
“It’s long past bedtime now.”
What does bedtime mean?
Bedtime means the time or hour at which one retires to bed in order to sleep.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bedtime (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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