Examples of “nightly” in a Sentence

adjective Happening every night, or relating to the night.

• The dog demanded to go out for his nightly walk.
• The security guard completed his nightly rounds before locking the front doors.
• She follows a nightly routine of reading a chapter before going to sleep.
• The hotel offers a nightly turndown service.

adverb Every night.

• He checks his email nightly.
• The cat prowls the garden nightly, looking for mice.
• We check the locks nightly before we go to bed.
• The news airs nightly at ten o'clock.
• This tunnel assumed some measure of importance during the second world war, when it was used nightly as an air raid shelter for multiple unit electric trains which were propelled over the branch by a steam engine. — R. C. Riley, By Rail to Kemp Town (1952)