night table

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This happens with sufficient frequency for me to keep my cellphone on my night table so that I can search for the missing item and return to my less-than-sound sleep.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Berman confessed he was so turned off by the photo that the book “lay on my night table for weeks” before he started reading it.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2022

"We needed an upgrade from a single box of bandaids & tube of Neosporin in my night table drawer."

From Fox News • Sep. 14, 2021

Sometimes if I was on the road and I was feeling blue, I would put the bag on my night table so I would see something familiar as I fell asleep.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2020

Before he left his room, he turned on the small phonograph wedged beneath his night table and laid the needle down on the only record in sight.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy