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

Still, others say home-buying activity needs to increase more to break the market out of its slumber.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

Record sightings have been reported again this year as the bears emerge from their winter slumber, according to local media.

From Barron's ● May 8, 2026

It is said that this magic slumber was her doing.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

Jackson knows what can happen when good policy gets stuck on the drawing board while society slumbers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2024

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

Ground squirrels don’t waste away during Jack Frost’s tenure—they manage to build muscle at the end of their winter slumbers, even with no fuel from food.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 26, 2022

What slumbers in the heart, slumbers in the stone.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

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

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

Scientists say they’re closer to an answer, thanks to an unusual study that used an electronic glove to guide people’s dreams while they slumbered.

From Science Magazine ● May 15, 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

The bookshelves with their neatly ordered manuscripts slumbered in the shadows, while overhead pale moonlight wafted through the stained glass windows, lighting on the bronze statues of past Librarians standing vigil over the galleries.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

My dining table is cluttered with mail, yet-to-be-shipped jars of homemade jam and, more often than not, an enormous, slumbering pile of Maine Coon.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025

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

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025

Shortly before 01:00 BST on 16 October, the slumbering streets of Benwell were rent by the roar of an enormous explosion.

From BBC ● May 14, 2025

My mother turned from a foggy log into a slumbering, middle-aged woman, her mouth slightly open and a snore raveling from her throat.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath