Sentence examples for white nights from inspiring English sources

"white nights" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a phenomenon in which the nights in certain regions experience extended periods of daylight, giving the appearance of daylight even during the night. Example: St. Petersburg is known for its famous "white nights" where the sun barely sets and the city stays illuminated by a soft white glow.

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white nights

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Plural of white night

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Eight White Nights, by André Aciman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $26).

EIGHT WHITE NIGHTS, by Andr ciman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26).

Hordes of teenagers, but also many other inhabitants, crowded the bright streets of the white nights.

It took me a few white nights and a lot of puff pastry, but here it is: the Chocolate Straw.

As its title suggests, the collection thrives on a nocturnal uneasiness, a white heat that emerges during white nights.

As it happens, I saw this triple bill when it was new at the Mariinsky's White Nights festival in 1994.

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In Russia's northern city of St Petersburg, the few brief weeks of White Nights and sun-filled summer days are an intoxicating time.

The pleasure-boat owners have been among the biggest beneficiaries of the White Nights' popularity.

Nor would you expect it to be, given that it springs in part from a Dostoyevsky story called "White Nights".

The next day, with the map on the seat beside me, I headed off on the White Nights trail.

White Nights starts with a stranger gatecrashing a party in The Herring House, an art gallery in fictional Biddista.

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