slumbering

Example Sentences

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The roughly 240 members of the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge there report the winter forecast from Octoraro Orphie, or least via his well-preserved remains.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2024

Slumbering among thousands of bacterial strains in a collection of natural specimens at The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, several fragile vials held something unexpected, and possibly very useful.

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2023

Slumbering with a pet “may help out with anxiety and depression, because a dog is like a weighted blanket. It gives you that snuggling and cuddling effect,” he said.

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2021

KILIS, Turkey — Slumbering amid olive and pistachio groves on a hot plain near the Syrian border, Kilis, Turkey, was for many decades a quiet backwater, surviving, but hardly prospering, on cross-border trade and smuggling.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2021

Slumbering like two babes in the wood, and your sweet innocent breaths perfuming the woody forest.

From The Missourian by Lyle, Eugene P. (Eugene Percy)