sleep Examples

[sliːp]

[-iːp]

'to sleep' UK

Examples of sleep in a Sentence

Examples of sleep
1. [That cat] hasn't caught a mouse since he was a slip of a kitten. Except when eating, he does nothing but sleep. Lethargic is the word that springs to the lips. If you cast an eye on him, you will see that he's asleep now.
2. The Egotist Becomes a Personage "A fathom deep in sleep I lie With old desires, restrained before, To clamor lifeward with a cry, As dark flies out the greying door; And so in quest of creeds to share I seek assertive day again...
3. light sleep, light anesthesia
4. a little sleep
5. a magnetic sleep
6. magnetical sleep
7. That shirt is dirty. Go and put on a new one. I feel like a new person after a good night's sleep. After the accident, I saw the world with new eyes. ‎
8. nonrefreshing sleep
9. Can I sleep over? ‎
Examples of slept
1. He had slept for two hours after winning Best in Show Tuesday night at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, and now was 13 hours into his postvictory news media tour.
2. Others slept; he worked straight through.
3. He slept fitfully, plagued by bad dreams and a persistent cough.
4. With so much worry, I only slept off and on last night.
5. With so much worry, I only slept on and off last night.
6. I have repaired the underarms in the sweater so many times it has the love-punished look of the blanky I slept with until age 9.
7. 1963: Enderby, blinking and squinting, noting that he had slept with his teeth in, wondering where he had put his contact lenses, was emboldened by morning chordee to say, ‘Oughtn’t you to come back to bed for a while?’ — Anthony Burgess, Inside Mr Enderby
8. We slept together on the first date.
Examples of sleeps
1. The mate sleeps abaft
2. He sleeps as the rain falls.
3. a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps
4. After a failed connection attempt, the program sleeps for 5 seconds before trying again. ‎
5. [ …] then nothing until that Bruce Willis turdpile a few yeas[sic] ago where he played a horny psychiatrist who sleeps with a patient.
6. "Whenever Helen sleeps, her fevered rest meekens her; hence, she re-emerges enfeebled -- her strength, expended; her reserves, depleted."
7. My cat often sleeps on my bed. I keep a glass of water next to my bed when I sleep. ‎
Examples of sleeping
1. I'm not ready to get attached, as I want to continue sleeping around.
2. She was a truly Faustian archaeologist, not above sleeping with other researchers to find out what leads they were following.
3. The women's sleeping quarters are on the left side of the dormitory, the men's are on the right; gender-neutral restrooms are located in the middle.
4. Whenever I pass the park, I see the homeless people sleeping on the benches.