eternal sleep

Example Sentences

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The shaken Arthur, seeking death, is greeted by a group of heavenly maidens who offer to take him away — not to death, but to eternal sleep.

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2021

What a thrilling conclusion, to curl into your eternal sleep while tourists stand on top of your bones to order McGriddles.

From Slate • Dec. 30, 2020

The intellectual classes in Rome did not believe in "an eternal life"�they believed in "eternal sleep."

From Time Magazine Archive

Sent to placate him, she sings a lullaby that soothes him into eternal sleep, after which her gift fosters a tradition of singing that makes the town famous.

From Time Magazine Archive

He once told me that death is the eternal sleep.

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson