: a story read or recounted to someone (such as a child) at bedtime
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Kids can also ask Alexa to play music, read bedtime stories, help with homework, or even create interactive stories, while a free year Amazon Kids Plus grants kids access to thousands of audiobooks, podcasts, and games.—Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 8 Apr. 2026 The tipping point came in flashback, during which the tiny turtle monster is told a violent bedtime story by his father, with the benefit of crude but charming hand puppets and cardboard sets.—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 31 Mar. 2026 Like actual bedtime stories at a sleepover, or campfire ghost stories repeated with a flashlight under your chin, Bedtime Stories creates images that can lodge in your brain for a decade and hold up to revisits.—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2026 The app also lets people create and tell bedtime stories in their own voice.—Meghan Schiller, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for bedtime story