sleep
Example Sentences
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Sobie and her children now sleep on the narrow broken platform where their house stood until a few weeks ago on Lagos Lagoon.
From BBC
“You are sleeping in a cradle at the beginning of your life,” Metz said, and, likewise, “at your very end.”
Jackie didn’t sleep in the nest or sit on the broken eggs.
From Los Angeles Times
Right as everyone began to agree on the danger, the mountain seemed to go back to sleep.
From Literature
Dozens of hand-torn paper fragments connected by rows of string become miniature projection screens, each flashing with images of the same sleeping heads, busy hands and forest animals.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
