- present participle of sleep.
sleeping
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Josimar Medina, a 31-year-old Peruvian who was holidaying in Spain with his girlfriend, said he was sleeping on the Renfe train when "I woke up and I was in the air."
From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2026
To study the spiders' sleeping behavior, the team placed individual Portia fimbriata spiders in plastic dishes measuring 12 centimeters in diameter.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
Cole often tells the story of sleeping on an air mattress with his wife, Emily, in a ramshackle garage apartment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
He remembered that in Sheila's final weeks, his wife was sleeping on the floor of her mother's bedroom to make sure she was alright.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
“I don’t suppose you know where he was sleeping, before he went over to France?”
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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