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sleep

Definition for sleep

noun as in suspension of consciousness

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It’s too soon to tell you much about battery life or the new built-in sleep tracking feature, and I’ll need more time to render a long-term verdict.

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Instead, the Academy recommends making sure that screen time does not substitute for any sleep or active time.

You’ll visit islands like Santa Cruz and Isabela and either camp on the beach or sleep on a sailboat.

The team implemented training, nutrition, recovery, and sleep strategies based on where each player was in their cycle.

From pretty much the second or third day until then, so almost 1,000 miles, I had been plagued by shin splints, and ended up walking 20-hour days and getting two or three hours of sleep.

Lee would stay up late, unable to sleep from the pains he had in his back.

On some Sundays he came to church with only two hours of sleep.

Zubaydah and two other detainees were subsequently waterboarded, and subjected to other methods including sleep deprivation.

Detainees there were subject to sleep deprivation, shackled to bars with their hands above their heads.

He was slapped, grabbed in the face, placed in stress positions, placed in standing sleep deprivation, and doused with water.

At last Aristide fed him desperately, dandled him eventually to sleep, and returned to an excited pillow.

Punch scratched himself in his sleep, and Judy moaned a little.

Until we work up some weeks' reserve of water, food and cartridges, I shan't sleep sound.

The white light of the moon had fallen upon the world like the mystery and the softness of sleep.

So how do you suppose Yung Pak's mother used to put him to sleep in this land where cradles were unknown?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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