Sleeping

//ˈsliːpɪŋ//

"Sleeping" in a Sentence (15 examples)

He's sleeping like a baby.

I had my purse and commutation ticket stolen while I was sleeping on the train.

The family had been sleeping for about two hours when the fire broke out.

There's a rich man sleeping on a golden bed.

A driver was sleeping in the car.

My right foot is sleeping.

Doctors have offered me nothing but sleeping pills.

Robin looks very cute when he's sleeping.

After sleeping well, I felt much better.

Look at the baby sleeping in the cradle.

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‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’

We found a sleeping child inside the church.

Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.

And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres / I slombred in a slepyng, it swyved so merye.

[…] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.

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