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  • noun Plural form of nightshift.

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Examples

  • I devepoed a real taste for the salad when I was working in nightshifts for a while.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Anjali 2006

  • I devepoed a real taste for the salad when I was working in nightshifts for a while.

    Pasta Salad Anjali 2006

  • Heh, afternoon activities make the nightshifts more bearable.

    Diary of a Temporarily Single Dad - Day 3 Tyler 2009

  • Although nothing much happened (and when it did, it was offstage), it was a job to keep your eye on the switching narrative – divided between naturalistic scenes from home, school and office and others in which the sister (the evidently versatile Nadine Marshall), in a dark, empty studio set, acted out the observations and fleeting thoughts of all three characters (four, when the father, who worked nightshifts, finally put in an appearance).

    Rewind TV: The Man Who Crossed Hitler; Hans Litten vs Adolf Hitler: To Stop a Tyrant; Random; American: The Bill Hicks Story; The Hour – review 2011

  • Steve Or put in for some nightshifts and stick to daytime telly.

    Ask the Psychoville agony uncles 2011

  • When he came to the misfits table (Jon, Don, Mark & I) he got the cold shoulder, particularly when he started talking about his life on the railroad and how he did his job drunk .... especially the nightshifts, which I pointed out was a GREAT time to have impaired judgement.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2008

  • There'd been plenty of horrendous nightshifts when he'd have given anything just to be sitting on his arse, reading the papers and drinking cups of tea, but this was anything but relaxing.

    It's October, 1956. Shelagh Power-Chopra 2010

  • I have had nightshifts where the nearest cop to back me up is 17 miles away.

    Bigmouth Strikes Again « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2006

  • Millions of regular folks work nightshifts all over the world and see very little sunshine.

    Ten Reasons Why Vampires Aren't Sexy (For Me) Tia Nevitt 2008

  • Being familiar with oriental mytic and having lived and worked nightshifts in a store in the middle of an Indian neighbourhood in Birmingham-England, I must say this was a very good take on the rich yet complicated to a semi chaotic world..

    EP Flash: Nightshift in the Automart 2007

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