sleep around

Example Sentences

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If our daughter has gone to sleep around 8, this will usually be maybe 9, 9:30 depending on if I’ve fallen asleep in the bed next door.

From Los Angeles Times

Eyewitnesses told the BBC that devotees had been sleeping around the barricades of the Sangam nose - the point of confluence of the rivers - when the crowd surged towards them, leading to the crush.

From BBC

Unable to sleep around 2 a.m. last Wednesday, Sean St. John got out of bed and drove from his Pasadena home to check on his Altadena pizzeria, Pizza of Venice.

From Los Angeles Times

Then I managed to get forty winks or so of sleep around sunrise.

From Literature

Males are known to ramp up their physical activity during their mating season, but how their sleep quality changed — antechinuses typically sleep around 15 hours a day — remained elusive.

From New York Times