Sentence examples for children at bedtime from inspiring English sources

Spend extra time with children at bedtime.

Samsung isn't suggesting (yet) that parents switch to virtual reality when they're actually with their children at bedtime.

The way its car-led layout and concrete modernism fell out of favour is now a cautionary tale that architects and urban planners tell their children at bedtime.

On the first reading I overdid the "Oooh-arr me hearties" piratical voice, on the grounds that if you can't camp things up reading to your children at bedtime there's no point going on.

Aristocrats gave their names to foundlings at the newly established Foundling Hospital in Coram's Fields, London, visiting the children at bedtime so that their feelings for the infants could be seen and witnessed.

D. Chase Angier is a fine storyteller, and she turned her audience into the equivalent of children at bedtime with two pieces she presented on Thursday night at the Joyce SoHo.

Here, Mr. Sandler speaks so slowly that he sounds like a dad trying to calm an overstimulated child at bedtime.

The memorable "absention" ("one of the members of a family absents himself from home") that opens "Hansel and Gretel" is clear enough, but a child at bedtime would have difficulty parsing the last line of "Cinderella": As the soil on me continued to turn into gold, the ground of our garden sprouted trees, fruits, and vegetables.

Before long -- as Shackleton and his men sail off, full of Edwardian pluck, into a 22-month ordeal of hunger, frustration and cold -- you become like a restless child at bedtime stilled and enraptured by the sheer power of narrative, and your skepticism is overwhelmed by a childlike greediness for vicarious adventure.

The parents of each child were given a tablet computer with which to read to the child at bedtime.

There is something pure and special about sitting down with a child, at bedtime or in a classroom and reading a book together, turning the pages slowly, holding it out to showcase the illustrations and being fully immersed in the story, without the interruption of an email popping up on the screen or a text coming through.