slumber

Perhaps he pictured a shared meal, clinking glasses and maybe a nostalgic movie on the sofa before comfortably sinking into slumber and loud farting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

But in the 1985 novel told from his point of view, he’s reborn as a rock star, emerging from a long, depressive slumber just in time to seduce the MTV generation.

From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026

The clinical standard for measuring slumber is an in-lab overnight study, or a polysomnogram.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

Looking at its daily chart this has lagged the energy complex since last December but I believe it will come out of its slumber shortly.

From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026

Its fires were now dimmed, and it stood in smouldering slumber, as threatening and dangerous as a sleeping beast.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Right now, the rascal in him slumbers, briefly glimpsed now and again behind dark shades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026

As the sun still slumbers early Monday, patches of dense fog are cloaking parts of Puget Sound and the southwest interior, including areas in and around Tacoma, Bellevue, Seattle and Bremerton.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2023

As his successor Major Burns continues in the role, it is unclear how often his daily performance will be waking a monarch from his slumbers.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2022

Ghosts of an ailing industry surround Gravitricity’s test site: A supply vessel serving North Sea oil rigs slumbers nearby.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 22, 2021

On a Saturday morning in late 1949, he called an urgent staff meeting to outline the concept, unnerving not a few staff members roused from their slumbers by the unexpected weekend alert.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Hundreds of older people slumbered on thin mats on the hard lobby floor at a community centre in Uki city.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Parts of him that had long slumbered were waking up.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2025

Before Page Dickey and Francis Bosco Schell spent a single night in their house in northwestern Connecticut, clay pots of flower bulbs slumbered there, setting down roots in a space of their own.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

While RSV and influenza slumbered these past few years, society was learning an unprecedented amount about their behavior and the effect public health actions have on them.

From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2022

In a special spot in the barn, their hawk, Germogen, slumbered on his perch.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

Treasury debt is a slumbering giant that is starting to stir.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

"The border with Lithuania is in 30 minutes," the assistant shouted to rouse slumbering passengers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025

Before landing on the small ape of “The Legend of Ochi,” Saxon first considered a giant oaf and then something closer to the slumbering beast of Hayao Miyazaki’s “My Neighbor Totoro.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2025

If there is indeed a slumbering mass of Americans who believe in real “we the people” democracy, they need to wake up. immediately.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2025

It was a reply to a message he’d sent a few hours before, just after seven, when 1 was still slumbering in our bed.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins