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Definition of sleep in English: sleepnoun sliːpslip mass noun1A condition of body and mind which typically recurs for several hours every night, in which the nervous system is inactive, the eyes closed, the postural muscles relaxed, and consciousness practically suspended. I was on the verge of sleep in singular a good night's sleep as modifier the effects of sleep loss Example sentencesExamples - And each morning my peaceful sleep was interrupted by the most irritating and annoying ringing sound imaginable.
- All she remembered was pulling the covers over herself and dropping off into an exhausted yet restless sleep.
- The apnea index is the number of apneic events occurring each hour averaged over all hours of sleep and for all body positions.
- Based on the results of this study, seven hours of sleep per night seems optimal for longer life.
- The average American gets between six and seven hours of sleep a night during the week.
- I fell into a fitful, restless sleep, one that was preoccupied with thoughts of him.
- Among these last six patients, four were obese and had obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
- The number of hours of sleep per night and any symptoms are recorded in the nursing notes.
- The authors conclude that controlled crying reduced infant sleep disorders and benefited depressed mothers.
- She fell into a fitful, dreamless sleep.
- For most people a night or two of poor sleep, or even a night of no sleep, isn't that bad.
- Sure, they make it sound like a cool thing with the promise of an extra hour of sleep Saturday night.
- Adequate, restful sleep is important to everyone, regardless of age.
- He rolled over completely, pressed his face into the soft pillow, and allowed the stillness of sleep to take over.
- I got very little sleep for several days and put in a lot of hard labor.
- Is there anything else that might allow me at least three hours of continuous sleep at night?
- Older children and young adults through their 30s need seven to nine hours of sleep each night.
- Together we drift off into a much needed sleep, both comfortable and content.
- As they get older they may need only nine or ten hours of sleep at night, but it varies just as it does for adults.
- It was associated with excessive sleepiness in those averaging less than 7 hours of sleep per night.
- People differ in their need for sleep, and everyone has the occasional night of disturbed sleep.
Synonyms nap, doze, rest, siesta, drowse, catnap beauty sleep informal snooze, forty winks, a bit of shut-eye, power nap British informal kip, zizz children's language bye-byes literary slumber - 1.1literary A state compared to or resembling sleep, such as death or complete silence or stillness.
a photograph of the poet in his last sleep Example sentencesExamples - The only peace that is going to last, for millions of men, is the peace they will get in the sleep of death.
- He is not an overly religious man and maintains that there is no after life, that death is a long sleep.
- The pair would die a most easy of deaths, a drowsy sleep to never wake from.
- After all isn't death just the deepest sleep imaginable - the kind of sleep which calms all pain and ends all sadness?
- I was comforted by the thought of the blissful non-dreaming sleep of death but I could no longer believe in that.
- 1.2informal count noun (typically in the context of anticipating a forthcoming event) a night, or a night's sleep.
two more sleeps till I fly to LA
2A gummy secretion found in the corners of the eyes after sleep. she sat up, rubbing the sleep from her eyes Example sentencesExamples - She rolled to face the door, rubbing sleep from her eyes with one loose fist.
- Lisa ruffled Charlie's hair as she wandered past, rubbing sleep from her eyes.
- Not as frightened but still concerned, you walk to the bathroom, rubbing sleep from your eyes.
- Diego rose from that bed of his, rubbing the sleep from his eyes.
- Shay turned the corner rubbing the sleep from her slightly swollen eyes.
- I slowly put my head into my arms on my desk as sleep creeps into the corners of my eyes.
- He blinked, rubbing sleep from his eyes as he looked at each of us.
- He wipes at his eye, rubbing sleep crumbs from his eyelashes and shrugs sleepily.
- Immediately, the chief appeared at the palisades, rubbing sleep from his eyes, but still awake enough to raise the alarm.
- It was the same for several human villagers who exited shabby tents, rubbing sleep from their eyes.
- Keelah finally gave up, and went along with her friends, rubbing sleep from her weary eyes.
- I rubbed the sleep from my eyes, sat up, and looked around.
verbslept sliːpslip 1no object Be in a state of sleep. she slept for half an hour Example sentencesExamples - I was very tired after the game, having slept badly all week due to the adrenalin of doing gigs or nerves at the upcoming poker.
- I am one of those people who, when sleeping alone, always awakes with a book on his chest.
- He asked her to leave him alone and let him sleep, she said.
- I usually didn't wear a shirt to bed when I slept alone, at home.
- I was worried that I might not have handled it very well and slept badly.
- Raymond told how he slept alone in a old stone granary that was infested with rats during the winter in preparation for the programme.
- He will not sleep alone and it breaks my heart to see him so frightened.
- I pretended to sleep for half an hour, then got up and made myself some tea.
- Cloaked in a blanket of muted late-shows, he sleeps alone on the couch now.
- Every child is different and just because yours prefers sleeping alone in his crib does not mean that every child will prefer that.
- If the tide is out, there are usually half a dozen seals sleeping on the rocks, and we just sit there and watch.
- Addicts stop eating, stop sleeping and start hallucinating badly.
- Not sleeping had become a constant agitation - and the more he worried about it, the worse he slept.
- I must have slept badly and was shrouded in a mist of tiredness that, by rights, should have been long gone.
- Having slept for half the day on Sunday, I can't fall asleep at night.
- I found myself alone, my friends sleeping to restore their exhausted souls.
- I forgot to tell you about Tom, who was the only son and had to sleep on the half loft above the kitchen.
- Half are unable to sleep due to depression and anxiety.
- She sleeps badly, and worries constantly about her future.
- How could someone so cruel and unforgiving sleep like an innocent child, wrapped up in a mother's arms?
Synonyms be asleep, doze, rest, take a siesta, nap, take a nap, catnap, drowse sleep like a log/top informal snooze, snatch forty winks, get some shut-eye, be in the land of Nod British informal kip, have a kip, get one's head down, zizz, get some zizz, doss (down) North American informal catch some Zs literary slumber, be in the arms of Morpheus - 1.1sleep through Fail to be woken by.
he was so tired he slept through the alarm - 1.2 Be inactive or dormant.
Copenhagen likes to be known as the city that never sleeps Example sentencesExamples - But women's issues may be the sleeping giant of American politics these days.
- Alas, the ads were kind of a cheat - by the time Jason finally reached the city that never sleeps, the movie was nearly 3/4 over.
- Could this sleeping giant, if awakened, play a role in the revival of labor unions and progressive politics?
- As if we had new language, new tactics, new ways of communicating that could waken the dormant dissent and the sleeping visions in every heart.
- The sleeping giants of the competition could well be Byron Bay.
- Tourism as has been noticed is a sleeping giant.
- No wonder councillor John Lynch, convener of cultural and leisure services, dubbed it ‘the sleeping giant of British museums’.
- The sleeping giant is waking up - and not a moment too soon.
- With all these measures in place, all that the country needs is to work hard to develop Zambia's rural areas - the sleeping giants.
- Roe helped to wake the sleeping giant of fundamentalist and evangelical southern white Protestant politics.
- The prayer centre in Didsbury opened today welcoming Christians aged 16 to 30 who want to worship when the rest of the city sleeps.
- All this talk of the 70's has obviously woken a sleeping giant within.
- They were at their twinkling best, refusing to let the city sleep.
- This is a city that rarely sleeps, that never seems to rest in its quest for pleasure, in its endeavour at enterprise, in its inherent divinity.
- As the Japanese economy stops shrinking in nominal terms, a domestic demand-led recovery could reawaken this sleeping giant.
- The ego that actually does the writing, the sleeping self, is buried so deep that he's not affected by anything that happens in the real world.
- 1.3literary Be at peace in death; lie buried.
he sleeps in Holywell cemetery Example sentencesExamples - Bede the priest sleeps eternally.
- One who "sleeps the eternal slumber" lives in the heart.
2with object Provide (a specified number of people) with beds, rooms, or places to stay the night. studios sleeping two people cost £70 a night Example sentencesExamples - The Norman Rockwell Room sleeps 4 with one double\\full bed and two single beds.
- The hotel sleeps over 100 guests, and every bedroom is unique.
- The package said sleeps six, but I say more comfortably 4 or 5 people.
3no object, with adverbial Have sexual intercourse or be involved in a sexual relationship. I won't sleep with a man who doesn't respect me Example sentencesExamples - Just because I sleep with the same sex does not mean I cannot serve my country.
- He didn't say anything about his sexuality, but of course, we who hoped to sleep with him all speculated.
- Noel and Ruby complicate their relationship even further by sleeping together.
- Between you and your brother you've slept with half the state!
- You're a beautiful, sexy woman, and if you want to sleep with men and women, I have no judgment about that.
- However, it might not be surprising to find out that one of those guys thought we were more exclusive just because we were sleeping together.
- That's why I know I don't have to sleep with my future wife to find out if we're sexually compatible.
- An older, gorgeous married man wanting to sleep with you can seem like a fabulous compliment and ego boost.
- All I wanted was to stay friends and to get on with my life (which I couldn't do when we kept sleeping together).
- Well, gosh, I mean, everybody knows the guy's been sleeping with half of Hollywood for the past five years.
- All across the school we were known for everything from sleeping together to modeling in nude photos.
- While you're there, don't sleep with her and don't behave like her boyfriend.
- Making a long story very short, we ended up sleeping together.
- It is unloving to yourself to sleep with a man early in the relationship and then run the risk of being dumped because all he wanted was sex.
- And, well, we've also been sleeping together off and on, when neither of us are dating anyone else, for the past five years.
- Women who sleep with men who have slept with other men only have to wait 12 months to donate blood.
- I know he's turned down lots of other girls, so for him to feel ready to sleep with me, only me, really says a lot for his feelings.
- But she had been really mad at me for not being willing to sleep with her.
- I made it clear that I would like to sleep with her, but she was hesitant.
- Lots of girls pretend to be sexually open but still think that if they sleep with someone then there should be a relationship.
Phrases one could do something in one's sleep informal One could do something with no effort or conscious thought. it's a cinch. I could do it in my sleep she knew the music perfectly, could sing it in her sleep Example sentencesExamples - Listening to the arguments for pornography is like listening to the refrain of a song one can sing in one's sleep.
- By now, they can probably give them in their sleep.
- Do this until you feel so comfy with every note you could sing the tune in your sleep.
- But when you've been at this (the record business) as long as me, you can think in your sleep.
- You could recite stopping distances and road signs in your sleep.
- The ability to execute simple skills at the highest level at pace was absent, whereas the All Blacks seemed to be able to do it in their sleep.
- By this stage, you could build a movie in your sleep.
- The company's line is so practised that they can recite it in their sleep: more jobs, more choice - and what's more, shoppers want it.
- The instructions in issue 10 are spare, intended for Craftsman-level builders who frame walls in their sleep.
- They could do it in their sleep, which some of them looked very near.
he got to sleep eventually Example sentencesExamples - According to one study, 97 per cent of pregnant women have difficulties getting to sleep or staying asleep.
- She didn't remember how long it took her to get to sleep or even falling asleep.
- ‘I usually don't have troubles getting to sleep and fall asleep quite quickly but it's not unusual that I wake up in the middle of the night,’ said Mrs Snelgrove.
- At home I finally managed to get to sleep for a while but I was awake again at eight.
- After some passionate kissing they cuddled up and managed to get to sleep.
- For those people, the reason for less sleep is not that they have trouble sleeping rather they have trouble getting to sleep.
- Just as I start thinking about trying to get to sleep, I drop off.
- I tactfully informed her I had at long last managed to get to sleep and her call had woken me.
- Most of the group managed to get to sleep, except for a girl that just stared at the moon.
- She tucked the letter back in the journal, and crawled into bed, and managed to get to sleep.
I went to sleep almost as soon as I climbed into bed Example sentencesExamples - I'd changed into a baggy t-shirt and shorts of Trevor's and went to sleep just after he'd fallen asleep.
- I crashed into bed and went to sleep thinking of him and how good he smelled.
- Stretching his cramped muscles, Carson had just resolved to go to sleep himself when his eyes fell on the connector door.
- Slowly he drifted off into unconsciousness, until finally he went to sleep altogether.
- Sometimes a child will only go to sleep if a parent is there, fall asleep downstairs, or want to go to bed at the same time as his parents.
- Dusk had fallen once we reached the cave, so we went to sleep without the presence of thieves.
- I told her to go to sleep then, and we both fell asleep until Mark came in asking her for money for his cab.
- She fell on her bed and was about to go to sleep when a knock came on the door.
- She dropped down in the sand and went to sleep, too worn out from the chase.
- She went to bed in her work clothes and even delayed going to sleep until she believed he was asleep.
Synonyms fall asleep, get to sleep - 1.1(of a limb) become numb as a result of prolonged pressure.
her right arm had gone to sleep Example sentencesExamples - It's a very odd sensation, simply not being able to focus one's mind; the mental equivalent of waking up and realizing your arm has gone to sleep and you can't feel or move it.
- It was five o'clock in the morning, and her first thought was that the lifeless arm had gone to sleep.
- You know the feeling when your foot or leg "goes to sleep" if you cross your legs to long?
- I tend to sleep on my side with my arm curled up under the pillow, and yes, it goes to sleep!
proverb Avoid interfering in a situation that is currently causing no problems but may well do so as a result of such interference. Example sentencesExamples - I think it would have been better to let sleeping dogs lie.
- But ages ago, he had learned to let sleeping dogs lie, so he wouldn't disturb the peace between his eldest and youngest.
- But then maybe it's best to let sleeping dogs lie.
- I'll let sleeping dogs lie for a bit on that front.
- The most bankrupt excuse is that these events took place a long time ago, eyewitness accounts may differ, and it is best to let sleeping dogs lie.
- Maybe I would end up wishing I had let sleeping dogs lie.
- So the Labor party is merely going along with the masses by letting sleeping dogs lie.
- I will let sleeping dogs lie and wish the man all the best in the world.
- And God also seems to have the highest expectations of us, not settling for second-best or letting sleeping dogs lie.
- Somebody sent me an email that said this was all the fault of the U.S. because ‘we should have let sleeping dogs lie.’
1Make someone unconscious by using drugs, alcohol, or an anaesthetic. a fast-acting barbiturate is administered through an intravenous line, which puts the patient quickly to sleep Example sentencesExamples - Freyen thought the alcohol had put him to sleep.
- A general anaesthetic is most commonly used, which means that you will be put to sleep for the operation.
- Before the Finnish anaesthetist put him to sleep, an Australian nurse asked an Ethiopian translator to find out if the farmer had any questions.
- Sedative gases and drugs relieve anxiety and cause temporary relaxation without putting you to sleep.
- For other major surgery, you'll often need general anesthesia, which puts you to sleep.
- We are going to give him some drugs to put him to sleep.
- She vividly remembers the doctor coming one day when she was four or five, putting her to sleep with anaesthetic and ‘straightening my feet.’
- For little children, it may be necessary to put them to sleep (general anesthetic) so that they don't move when radiation doses are given.
- I would like to give her medication myself that would put her to sleep.
- I was given some drugs but they only put me to sleep.
- 1.1Bore someone greatly.
Example sentencesExamples - I mean, broadly speaking there's a plan not to drive readers off screaming or send them to sleep.
- All I need to do is familiarise myself with the basic rules of the game and develop the merest hint of a passing interest in a game which never fails to send me to sleep…
- Sometimes during the day, when we are rehearsing, the scripts can send me to sleep.
- I mean, it's not as if I'm after a film with car chases (Gillian reckoned there weren't any in this film) but I want something reasonably intelligent without being something that would send me to sleep.
- I started counting sheep, which didn't send me to sleep but reminded me of what I wanted to write to you about.
- But this wine from South East Australia is dull enough to send you to sleep.
- In the middle of a lecture, a student stands up and says, ‘We're not paying you to read to us and put us to sleep!’
- The priest was incredibly boring and practically sent me to sleep with his sermon.
- The dreadful dullness of the Executive would be more apparent if the Party had not selected a leader who was supposed to soothe voters' fear of independence but has ended up sending them to sleep instead.
- And since this is the kind of basic knowledge that every school kid should know, the text refrains from being so dry that it sends you to sleep.
Synonyms be tedious to, pall on, stultify, stupefy, weary, tire, fatigue, send to sleep, exhaust, wear out, leave cold
Kill an animal, especially an old or badly injured one, painlessly (used euphemistically) they took their pit bull terrier on a trip to France before having her put to sleep Example sentencesExamples - To say categorically that it is crueler to put any cat to sleep rather than send it outdoors is a rash overgeneralization.
- Even when it involves visiting farms, making house calls or putting a terminally-ill animal to sleep, ‘it's what we are there for’.
- There have been rumours that we put animals to sleep once we cannot house them.
- It can be very distressing to put an animal to sleep when it bounds into the room wagging its tail.
- My Mother half-heartedly thought about putting both dogs to sleep at the same time to save the male dog the pain, but knows she can't very well put down a completely healthy dog!
- Sixteen animals were put to sleep because of their injuries, and three animals were believed to be the victims of deliberate attacks.
- ‘Unfortunately the arrow had hit the small intestine of the animal and the vet decided to put it to sleep,’ he said.
- In it she claimed that she had ‘found a cure for things the vet put your animal to sleep for.’
- She had been given the dogs by a pet shop who said that if she couldn't find a home for them, to put them to sleep.
- Okay, I know with an animal they put them to sleep if they are suffering.
Synonyms put down, destroy, put out of its misery
sleep like a log (or top) I slept like a log until morning Example sentencesExamples - He slept like a log for the best part of two hours.
- I slept like a log, and made it in to the hospital just after 10 this morning.
- She thinks that just because she sleeps like a log, everyone else must, too.
- When I'd finished the work, I crawled to my bed and slept like a log and then woke up ready for work again.
- But, then again, I sleep like a log even when it is not one o'clock in the morning.
- I slept like a log last night, for ten solid hours.
- The beds were really comfortable and I slept like a log every night.
- From the first night, I slept like a log, waking early and refreshed.
- ‘You may've murmured a couple of things but other than that you slept like a log,’ I lied.
- As far as he was concerned, he had slept like a log.
informal Delay making a decision until the following day. although she said she would sleep on it, she was virtually certain to resign Example sentencesExamples - ‘She said she wanted to sleep on it,’ the care worker said.
- I slept on it, and I still think it is a good point.
- Perhaps if he slept on it, he might find a solution.
- Having slept on it, I think it's probably fair to conclude that the media reported Clark's statements accurately.
- Glendon said: ‘Lee changed his mind after sleeping on it and stated he was happy at Rammy.’
- After sleeping on it, I decided I probably could have waited longer for the levity.
- He said he's sleeping on it and is going to make a decision tomorrow.
- If only those around him had persuaded Mr Howard to sleep on it; to take the whole weekend off.
- I don't regret any of what I said, because it was how I was feeling at the time, but I do regret that I didn't sleep on it and give some thought to the tone and content.
- I had some misgivings, and he had some misgivings, so I suggested he sleep on it overnight before rushing into a decision.
A deep, untroubled sleep. knowing that nothing will disturb me, I sleep the sleep of the just Example sentencesExamples - That night at the cabin the Sorceress slept the sleep of the just.
- One night when I was about 4 years old, and sleeping the sleep of the just, I heard a commotion downstairs.
- With a celebratory brandy inside me, I nodded off to the beat of the engine, and the waves, and slept the sleep of the just and the exhausted.
- I washed it down with a small brandy and American and repaired to bed to sleep the sleep of the just and the weary.
- I had sketched it all out on my ride home, and all I needed to do was travel the last few miles, go inside, type it all up, and sleep the sleep of the just.
- There's a person in America still sleeping the sleep of the just to whom I bunged an e-mail hours ago in the confident but foolish expectation of a quick reply.
- As she slept she looked like a goddess; her sleep was the sleep of the just.
- He could find them, however, nowhere; so returned early to his rooms, went early to bed, and slept the sleep of the just.
- After tracking down some local seafood cooking, and a walk down to the beach at dusk, we return to the hotel to sleep the sleep of the just.
usually in imperativeSleep well. ‘Goodnight, then. Sleep tight’ Example sentencesExamples - Goodnight sweetheart, sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite.
- ‘‘Night, guys,’ I said, before he could get another word in edgewise, and after hearing two normal responses and a ‘nighty-night, sleep tight!’
- It is incomprehensible to most westerners how anyone could sleep tight in a room six feet by four and a half by three and a bit.
- So good night, sleep tight, hope the bugs don't bite.
- Goodnight girls, sleep tight, help yourselves to anything in the car.
- ‘Goodnight, sleep tight,’ I whispered, for lack of anything creative, and winced at the cliché.
- With Frank on the board, corporate managements can sleep tight in the knowledge that Frank won't have a clue what's going on.
Sleep very lightly, aware of what is happening around one. the woman was like a cat sleeping with one eye open, watching everything that went on Example sentencesExamples - Brown gives the impression these days that, like the proverbial fox, he sleeps with one eye open.
- I'm sleeping with one eye open because it's disturbing.
- As deluxe as the accommodations were, we were constantly on the look-out for thugs and gangs - as well as police; and, slept with one eye open.
- I set his crib next to my bed, and I slept with one eye open.
- So, if I were you, tonight I'd sleep with one eye open.
- I have spent my life in an area where you needed to sleep with one eye open to survive.
- It was very scary; I had to sleep with one eye open.
- If you don't sleep with one eye open you're going to be in deep trouble tomorrow.
- We had to basically sleep with one eye open at all times, because we had an environment there that was ripe for chaos.
- She must have heard something because according to her father she slept with one eye open at all times.
Phrasal Verbs Have many casual sexual partners. I had stopped sleeping around, and returned to an almost chaste state Example sentencesExamples - When he did, she was angry and admitted she had been sleeping around during their entire relationship.
- They are lovers, but he sleeps around with other women too.
- She knows he is sleeping around but she won't use condoms because ‘that would look as if I don't trust him.’
- But anyone can sleep around, what is risqué about that?
- Threesomes are very common in gay relationships, often though they are used as a way to appease a partner who wants to sleep around.
- I wish my roommate could stop sleeping around with every man she comes into contact with.
- He is not sleeping around outside of our marriage, as far as I know.
- Before I met him, he was quite wild - drinking and sleeping around.
- Now, she just felt like a person who sleeps around seeking sexual gratification.
- It is assumed that you only get pregnant if you sleep around.
Remain asleep or in bed later than usual in the morning. life assumes a different rhythm on the weekend; we sleep in, cut the grass, wash the car Example sentencesExamples - The weather is clear, and crisp, it's not icy underfoot, and after a tiring week, we sleep in and miss the morning.
- Just because she had slept in on one morning did not mean that everybody had to be offensive.
- I let myself sleep in for ages this morning because I need all the energy I can get at the moment.
- We usually slept in Sunday mornings, waking just in time for her favorite cartoons.
- I need to stop sleeping in on weekends, no matter how good it feels to do so.
- I was too tired to get up and go to school for 8 in the morning so I just slept in.
- Sunday mornings are for sleeping in, not for physical exertion with the pub footie team.
- The next morning we all slept in, but when we got up we were ravenous.
- As is my wont, I slept in this morning and made up for a few short nights earlier in the week.
- Meanwhile, my sleeping in this morning meant Katharine had to get her own breakfast.
Dispel the effects of or recover from something by going to sleep. she thought it wise to let him sleep off his hangover Example sentencesExamples - The second time, I slept it off for two days at home and didn't even call the psychiatrist.
- We slept hangovers off together and it felt so nice just to be close to someone, to him.
- You sample everything, then sleep it off, and come back next night again for dinner.
- My father slept, or I should say slept it off, in the master bedroom.
- She went to bed after taking a couple of painkillers hoping to sleep the pain off, but her husband was later unable to wake her up.
- Instead, she says, the advice would be to help your child to bed, let them sleep it off, then discuss things in a rational way once you have calmed down.
- I spent yesterday afternoon on the couch, trying to sleep it off, or at least rest it off.
- But instead of waiting until he sobered up or slept it off, she would launch into him.
- She laughed and lay on our bed, her arms round me, while I slept it off.
- I return about 11 am hoping he would be sleeping it off.
- Just before 3 am I get back to my room and sleep it off.
- Stay tuned for further reports just as soon as Aaron has slept it off.
- We are saying do not drink and drive, get a designated driver or sleep it off.
they slept out all night by the river Example sentencesExamples - This will be the first time for many of the Beavers to sleep out and we hope they have a great night.
- We slept out on the floor of the desert with the vast sky overreaching, flooded with stars.
- 152 respondents were sleeping out in a wide variety of locations with parks, streets and squats being the most common
- The semi-rectangular bag stuffs down to the size of a two-liter bottle - tuck it into a waist pack and fellow hikers will never suspect you're sleeping out.
- Cornell was a collegiate hockey powerhouse, and I was a season ticket holder each of my four years there, which necessitated sleeping out a couple of nights just to get tickets.
- Far too many people, especially young people, are sleeping out on the streets every night, and many are aged 13 to 16.
- I slept out under the stars at Sunset Huts who were good enough to let me use their facilities.
- ‘No matter what they say, this will mean more people sleeping out on Darling St,’ Dr Lennane said.
- Imagine sleeping out in the open in temperatures touching freezing.
- United fans slept out overnight at the weekend to guarantee themselves a place at the second leg of the club's first League Cup semi-final and the tickets sold out.
Spend the night at a place other than one's own home. Katie was asked to sleep over with Jenny Example sentencesExamples - Jade was sleeping over that night and they was making the best of it by watching movies, and eating popcorn.
- Although we had spend several Friday or Saturday nights together sleeping over during that summer, this was very special.
- Evander had slept over a night here and there since moving out of course, but never prolonged his stay more than he had to.
- Well, he slept over with Chris last night, and in the morning he was gone, and he hasn't returned yet.
- One night when I slept over she told me she was going to cut off all my hair when I fell asleep.
- If you're going to have a big night, plan to sleep over or catch a cab.
- Last night I slept over at my parents' house, in my old room, in my old bed.
- I'm no longer hung up on Jesse which is a good thing because he's coming to sleep over in three nights.
- She told the other girls, who had slept over the night before.
- Kari had slept over for the night, in yet another room.
Origin Old English slēp, slǣp (noun), slēpan, slǣpan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch slapen and German schlafen. A word first recorded around ad 800. The modern-sounding phrase sleep with, meaning ‘to have sex with’, is almost as old, and was used by the Anglo-Saxons. Sleep like a log, meaning ‘to sleep very soundly’, is not recorded before the 1880s, but the earlier version sleep like a top was used in the 17th century—the top here was a wooden toy that spun when whipped by a child, but was otherwise still and lifeless. The modern form of the proverb let sleeping dogs lie appears first in Sir Walter Scott's 1824 novel Redgauntlet. Long before that, in the 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer advised in Troilus and Criseyde that ‘it is not good a sleeping hound to wake’.
Rhymes asleep, beep, bleep, cheap, cheep, creep, deep, heap, Jeep, keep, leap, neap, neep, peep, reap, seep, sheep, skin-deep, steep, Streep, sweep, veep, weep Definition of sleep in US English: sleepnounslipslēp 1A condition of body and mind such as that which typically recurs for several hours every night, in which the nervous system is relatively inactive, the eyes closed, the postural muscles relaxed, and consciousness practically suspended. I was on the verge of sleep in singular a good night's sleep Example sentencesExamples - Sure, they make it sound like a cool thing with the promise of an extra hour of sleep Saturday night.
- Is there anything else that might allow me at least three hours of continuous sleep at night?
- As they get older they may need only nine or ten hours of sleep at night, but it varies just as it does for adults.
- I fell into a fitful, restless sleep, one that was preoccupied with thoughts of him.
- And each morning my peaceful sleep was interrupted by the most irritating and annoying ringing sound imaginable.
- Among these last six patients, four were obese and had obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
- All she remembered was pulling the covers over herself and dropping off into an exhausted yet restless sleep.
- Based on the results of this study, seven hours of sleep per night seems optimal for longer life.
- Together we drift off into a much needed sleep, both comfortable and content.
- People differ in their need for sleep, and everyone has the occasional night of disturbed sleep.
- The average American gets between six and seven hours of sleep a night during the week.
- Older children and young adults through their 30s need seven to nine hours of sleep each night.
- Adequate, restful sleep is important to everyone, regardless of age.
- I got very little sleep for several days and put in a lot of hard labor.
- It was associated with excessive sleepiness in those averaging less than 7 hours of sleep per night.
- She fell into a fitful, dreamless sleep.
- The authors conclude that controlled crying reduced infant sleep disorders and benefited depressed mothers.
- The apnea index is the number of apneic events occurring each hour averaged over all hours of sleep and for all body positions.
- For most people a night or two of poor sleep, or even a night of no sleep, isn't that bad.
- The number of hours of sleep per night and any symptoms are recorded in the nursing notes.
- He rolled over completely, pressed his face into the soft pillow, and allowed the stillness of sleep to take over.
Synonyms nap, doze, rest, siesta, drowse, catnap - 1.1literary A state compared to or resembling sleep, such as death or complete silence or stillness.
a photograph of the poet in his last sleep Example sentencesExamples - I was comforted by the thought of the blissful non-dreaming sleep of death but I could no longer believe in that.
- After all isn't death just the deepest sleep imaginable - the kind of sleep which calms all pain and ends all sadness?
- He is not an overly religious man and maintains that there is no after life, that death is a long sleep.
- The only peace that is going to last, for millions of men, is the peace they will get in the sleep of death.
- The pair would die a most easy of deaths, a drowsy sleep to never wake from.
2A gummy or gritty secretion found in the corners of the eyes after sleep. she sat up, rubbing the sleep from her eyes Example sentencesExamples - Diego rose from that bed of his, rubbing the sleep from his eyes.
- Keelah finally gave up, and went along with her friends, rubbing sleep from her weary eyes.
- Shay turned the corner rubbing the sleep from her slightly swollen eyes.
- She rolled to face the door, rubbing sleep from her eyes with one loose fist.
- I slowly put my head into my arms on my desk as sleep creeps into the corners of my eyes.
- Lisa ruffled Charlie's hair as she wandered past, rubbing sleep from her eyes.
- He wipes at his eye, rubbing sleep crumbs from his eyelashes and shrugs sleepily.
- He blinked, rubbing sleep from his eyes as he looked at each of us.
- Not as frightened but still concerned, you walk to the bathroom, rubbing sleep from your eyes.
- I rubbed the sleep from my eyes, sat up, and looked around.
- Immediately, the chief appeared at the palisades, rubbing sleep from his eyes, but still awake enough to raise the alarm.
- It was the same for several human villagers who exited shabby tents, rubbing sleep from their eyes.
verbslipslēp [no object]1Rest by sleeping; be asleep. she slept for half an hour Example sentencesExamples - I am one of those people who, when sleeping alone, always awakes with a book on his chest.
- I usually didn't wear a shirt to bed when I slept alone, at home.
- Not sleeping had become a constant agitation - and the more he worried about it, the worse he slept.
- Having slept for half the day on Sunday, I can't fall asleep at night.
- Every child is different and just because yours prefers sleeping alone in his crib does not mean that every child will prefer that.
- I found myself alone, my friends sleeping to restore their exhausted souls.
- If the tide is out, there are usually half a dozen seals sleeping on the rocks, and we just sit there and watch.
- Cloaked in a blanket of muted late-shows, he sleeps alone on the couch now.
- Half are unable to sleep due to depression and anxiety.
- She sleeps badly, and worries constantly about her future.
- He will not sleep alone and it breaks my heart to see him so frightened.
- How could someone so cruel and unforgiving sleep like an innocent child, wrapped up in a mother's arms?
- I was very tired after the game, having slept badly all week due to the adrenalin of doing gigs or nerves at the upcoming poker.
- I forgot to tell you about Tom, who was the only son and had to sleep on the half loft above the kitchen.
- Raymond told how he slept alone in a old stone granary that was infested with rats during the winter in preparation for the programme.
- I pretended to sleep for half an hour, then got up and made myself some tea.
- I was worried that I might not have handled it very well and slept badly.
- He asked her to leave him alone and let him sleep, she said.
- Addicts stop eating, stop sleeping and start hallucinating badly.
- I must have slept badly and was shrouded in a mist of tiredness that, by rights, should have been long gone.
Synonyms be asleep, doze, rest, take a siesta, nap, take a nap, catnap, drowse - 1.1sleep through Fail to be woken by.
he was so tired he slept through the alarm - 1.2 Be inactive or dormant.
Copenhagen likes to be known as the city that never sleeps Example sentencesExamples - The prayer centre in Didsbury opened today welcoming Christians aged 16 to 30 who want to worship when the rest of the city sleeps.
- The ego that actually does the writing, the sleeping self, is buried so deep that he's not affected by anything that happens in the real world.
- As the Japanese economy stops shrinking in nominal terms, a domestic demand-led recovery could reawaken this sleeping giant.
- With all these measures in place, all that the country needs is to work hard to develop Zambia's rural areas - the sleeping giants.
- This is a city that rarely sleeps, that never seems to rest in its quest for pleasure, in its endeavour at enterprise, in its inherent divinity.
- They were at their twinkling best, refusing to let the city sleep.
- Could this sleeping giant, if awakened, play a role in the revival of labor unions and progressive politics?
- No wonder councillor John Lynch, convener of cultural and leisure services, dubbed it ‘the sleeping giant of British museums’.
- As if we had new language, new tactics, new ways of communicating that could waken the dormant dissent and the sleeping visions in every heart.
- Tourism as has been noticed is a sleeping giant.
- All this talk of the 70's has obviously woken a sleeping giant within.
- The sleeping giant is waking up - and not a moment too soon.
- But women's issues may be the sleeping giant of American politics these days.
- Roe helped to wake the sleeping giant of fundamentalist and evangelical southern white Protestant politics.
- The sleeping giants of the competition could well be Byron Bay.
- Alas, the ads were kind of a cheat - by the time Jason finally reached the city that never sleeps, the movie was nearly 3/4 over.
- 1.3literary Be at peace in death; lie buried.
he sleeps beneath the silver birches Example sentencesExamples - Bede the priest sleeps eternally.
- One who "sleeps the eternal slumber" lives in the heart.
2with object Provide (a specified number of people) with beds, rooms, or places to stay the night. studios sleeping two people cost $70 a night Example sentencesExamples - The hotel sleeps over 100 guests, and every bedroom is unique.
- The package said sleeps six, but I say more comfortably 4 or 5 people.
- The Norman Rockwell Room sleeps 4 with one double\\full bed and two single beds.
3 Have sexual intercourse or be involved in a sexual relationship. I won't sleep with a man who doesn't respect me Example sentencesExamples - Lots of girls pretend to be sexually open but still think that if they sleep with someone then there should be a relationship.
- And, well, we've also been sleeping together off and on, when neither of us are dating anyone else, for the past five years.
- That's why I know I don't have to sleep with my future wife to find out if we're sexually compatible.
- Between you and your brother you've slept with half the state!
- It is unloving to yourself to sleep with a man early in the relationship and then run the risk of being dumped because all he wanted was sex.
- You're a beautiful, sexy woman, and if you want to sleep with men and women, I have no judgment about that.
- While you're there, don't sleep with her and don't behave like her boyfriend.
- I know he's turned down lots of other girls, so for him to feel ready to sleep with me, only me, really says a lot for his feelings.
- An older, gorgeous married man wanting to sleep with you can seem like a fabulous compliment and ego boost.
- All I wanted was to stay friends and to get on with my life (which I couldn't do when we kept sleeping together).
- I made it clear that I would like to sleep with her, but she was hesitant.
- He didn't say anything about his sexuality, but of course, we who hoped to sleep with him all speculated.
- Noel and Ruby complicate their relationship even further by sleeping together.
- Making a long story very short, we ended up sleeping together.
- All across the school we were known for everything from sleeping together to modeling in nude photos.
- Women who sleep with men who have slept with other men only have to wait 12 months to donate blood.
- Just because I sleep with the same sex does not mean I cannot serve my country.
- Well, gosh, I mean, everybody knows the guy's been sleeping with half of Hollywood for the past five years.
- But she had been really mad at me for not being willing to sleep with her.
- However, it might not be surprising to find out that one of those guys thought we were more exclusive just because we were sleeping together.
Phrases one could do something in one's sleep informal One regards something as so easy that it will require no effort or conscious thought to accomplish. she knew the music perfectly, could sing it in her sleep Example sentencesExamples - The ability to execute simple skills at the highest level at pace was absent, whereas the All Blacks seemed to be able to do it in their sleep.
- The company's line is so practised that they can recite it in their sleep: more jobs, more choice - and what's more, shoppers want it.
- You could recite stopping distances and road signs in your sleep.
- Listening to the arguments for pornography is like listening to the refrain of a song one can sing in one's sleep.
- But when you've been at this (the record business) as long as me, you can think in your sleep.
- By now, they can probably give them in their sleep.
- The instructions in issue 10 are spare, intended for Craftsman-level builders who frame walls in their sleep.
- By this stage, you could build a movie in your sleep.
- They could do it in their sleep, which some of them looked very near.
- Do this until you feel so comfy with every note you could sing the tune in your sleep.
Example sentencesExamples - I tactfully informed her I had at long last managed to get to sleep and her call had woken me.
- According to one study, 97 per cent of pregnant women have difficulties getting to sleep or staying asleep.
- At home I finally managed to get to sleep for a while but I was awake again at eight.
- She didn't remember how long it took her to get to sleep or even falling asleep.
- She tucked the letter back in the journal, and crawled into bed, and managed to get to sleep.
- Just as I start thinking about trying to get to sleep, I drop off.
- ‘I usually don't have troubles getting to sleep and fall asleep quite quickly but it's not unusual that I wake up in the middle of the night,’ said Mrs Snelgrove.
- For those people, the reason for less sleep is not that they have trouble sleeping rather they have trouble getting to sleep.
- After some passionate kissing they cuddled up and managed to get to sleep.
- Most of the group managed to get to sleep, except for a girl that just stared at the moon.
Example sentencesExamples - She fell on her bed and was about to go to sleep when a knock came on the door.
- Stretching his cramped muscles, Carson had just resolved to go to sleep himself when his eyes fell on the connector door.
- She dropped down in the sand and went to sleep, too worn out from the chase.
- Dusk had fallen once we reached the cave, so we went to sleep without the presence of thieves.
- I'd changed into a baggy t-shirt and shorts of Trevor's and went to sleep just after he'd fallen asleep.
- I told her to go to sleep then, and we both fell asleep until Mark came in asking her for money for his cab.
- Slowly he drifted off into unconsciousness, until finally he went to sleep altogether.
- I crashed into bed and went to sleep thinking of him and how good he smelled.
- Sometimes a child will only go to sleep if a parent is there, fall asleep downstairs, or want to go to bed at the same time as his parents.
- She went to bed in her work clothes and even delayed going to sleep until she believed he was asleep.
Synonyms fall asleep, get to sleep - 1.1(of a limb) become numb as a result of prolonged pressure.
Example sentencesExamples - I tend to sleep on my side with my arm curled up under the pillow, and yes, it goes to sleep!
- You know the feeling when your foot or leg "goes to sleep" if you cross your legs to long?
- It's a very odd sensation, simply not being able to focus one's mind; the mental equivalent of waking up and realizing your arm has gone to sleep and you can't feel or move it.
- It was five o'clock in the morning, and her first thought was that the lifeless arm had gone to sleep.
proverb Avoid interfering in a situation that is currently causing no problems but might do so as a result of such interference. Example sentencesExamples - So the Labor party is merely going along with the masses by letting sleeping dogs lie.
- I think it would have been better to let sleeping dogs lie.
- Maybe I would end up wishing I had let sleeping dogs lie.
- Somebody sent me an email that said this was all the fault of the U.S. because ‘we should have let sleeping dogs lie.’
- And God also seems to have the highest expectations of us, not settling for second-best or letting sleeping dogs lie.
- But ages ago, he had learned to let sleeping dogs lie, so he wouldn't disturb the peace between his eldest and youngest.
- I will let sleeping dogs lie and wish the man all the best in the world.
- The most bankrupt excuse is that these events took place a long time ago, eyewitness accounts may differ, and it is best to let sleeping dogs lie.
- But then maybe it's best to let sleeping dogs lie.
- I'll let sleeping dogs lie for a bit on that front.
1Make someone unconscious by the use of drugs, alcohol, or an anesthetic. Example sentencesExamples - I was given some drugs but they only put me to sleep.
- Before the Finnish anaesthetist put him to sleep, an Australian nurse asked an Ethiopian translator to find out if the farmer had any questions.
- For other major surgery, you'll often need general anesthesia, which puts you to sleep.
- She vividly remembers the doctor coming one day when she was four or five, putting her to sleep with anaesthetic and ‘straightening my feet.’
- For little children, it may be necessary to put them to sleep (general anesthetic) so that they don't move when radiation doses are given.
- A general anaesthetic is most commonly used, which means that you will be put to sleep for the operation.
- Sedative gases and drugs relieve anxiety and cause temporary relaxation without putting you to sleep.
- I would like to give her medication myself that would put her to sleep.
- Freyen thought the alcohol had put him to sleep.
- We are going to give him some drugs to put him to sleep.
- 1.1Bore someone greatly.
Example sentencesExamples - I started counting sheep, which didn't send me to sleep but reminded me of what I wanted to write to you about.
- And since this is the kind of basic knowledge that every school kid should know, the text refrains from being so dry that it sends you to sleep.
- But this wine from South East Australia is dull enough to send you to sleep.
- All I need to do is familiarise myself with the basic rules of the game and develop the merest hint of a passing interest in a game which never fails to send me to sleep…
- Sometimes during the day, when we are rehearsing, the scripts can send me to sleep.
- In the middle of a lecture, a student stands up and says, ‘We're not paying you to read to us and put us to sleep!’
- The priest was incredibly boring and practically sent me to sleep with his sermon.
- I mean, broadly speaking there's a plan not to drive readers off screaming or send them to sleep.
- I mean, it's not as if I'm after a film with car chases (Gillian reckoned there weren't any in this film) but I want something reasonably intelligent without being something that would send me to sleep.
- The dreadful dullness of the Executive would be more apparent if the Party had not selected a leader who was supposed to soothe voters' fear of independence but has ended up sending them to sleep instead.
Synonyms be tedious to, pall on, stultify, stupefy, weary, tire, fatigue, send to sleep, exhaust, wear out, leave cold
Kill an animal, especially an old, sick, or badly injured one, painlessly (used euphemistically). Example sentencesExamples - It can be very distressing to put an animal to sleep when it bounds into the room wagging its tail.
- In it she claimed that she had ‘found a cure for things the vet put your animal to sleep for.’
- There have been rumours that we put animals to sleep once we cannot house them.
- ‘Unfortunately the arrow had hit the small intestine of the animal and the vet decided to put it to sleep,’ he said.
- Sixteen animals were put to sleep because of their injuries, and three animals were believed to be the victims of deliberate attacks.
- Okay, I know with an animal they put them to sleep if they are suffering.
- Even when it involves visiting farms, making house calls or putting a terminally-ill animal to sleep, ‘it's what we are there for’.
- To say categorically that it is crueler to put any cat to sleep rather than send it outdoors is a rash overgeneralization.
- My Mother half-heartedly thought about putting both dogs to sleep at the same time to save the male dog the pain, but knows she can't very well put down a completely healthy dog!
- She had been given the dogs by a pet shop who said that if she couldn't find a home for them, to put them to sleep.
Synonyms put down, destroy, put out of its misery
sleep like a log (or top) Example sentencesExamples - But, then again, I sleep like a log even when it is not one o'clock in the morning.
- I slept like a log last night, for ten solid hours.
- He slept like a log for the best part of two hours.
- I slept like a log, and made it in to the hospital just after 10 this morning.
- ‘You may've murmured a couple of things but other than that you slept like a log,’ I lied.
- From the first night, I slept like a log, waking early and refreshed.
- As far as he was concerned, he had slept like a log.
- She thinks that just because she sleeps like a log, everyone else must, too.
- The beds were really comfortable and I slept like a log every night.
- When I'd finished the work, I crawled to my bed and slept like a log and then woke up ready for work again.
informal Delay making a decision on something until the following day so as to have more time to consider it. Example sentencesExamples - If only those around him had persuaded Mr Howard to sleep on it; to take the whole weekend off.
- I don't regret any of what I said, because it was how I was feeling at the time, but I do regret that I didn't sleep on it and give some thought to the tone and content.
- Glendon said: ‘Lee changed his mind after sleeping on it and stated he was happy at Rammy.’
- He said he's sleeping on it and is going to make a decision tomorrow.
- After sleeping on it, I decided I probably could have waited longer for the levity.
- ‘She said she wanted to sleep on it,’ the care worker said.
- I slept on it, and I still think it is a good point.
- Having slept on it, I think it's probably fair to conclude that the media reported Clark's statements accurately.
- Perhaps if he slept on it, he might find a solution.
- I had some misgivings, and he had some misgivings, so I suggested he sleep on it overnight before rushing into a decision.
A deep, untroubled sleep. Example sentencesExamples - One night when I was about 4 years old, and sleeping the sleep of the just, I heard a commotion downstairs.
- With a celebratory brandy inside me, I nodded off to the beat of the engine, and the waves, and slept the sleep of the just and the exhausted.
- That night at the cabin the Sorceress slept the sleep of the just.
- As she slept she looked like a goddess; her sleep was the sleep of the just.
- I had sketched it all out on my ride home, and all I needed to do was travel the last few miles, go inside, type it all up, and sleep the sleep of the just.
- He could find them, however, nowhere; so returned early to his rooms, went early to bed, and slept the sleep of the just.
- After tracking down some local seafood cooking, and a walk down to the beach at dusk, we return to the hotel to sleep the sleep of the just.
- There's a person in America still sleeping the sleep of the just to whom I bunged an e-mail hours ago in the confident but foolish expectation of a quick reply.
- I washed it down with a small brandy and American and repaired to bed to sleep the sleep of the just and the weary.
usually in imperativeSleep well (said to someone when parting from them at night). Example sentencesExamples - ‘‘Night, guys,’ I said, before he could get another word in edgewise, and after hearing two normal responses and a ‘nighty-night, sleep tight!’
- ‘Goodnight, sleep tight,’ I whispered, for lack of anything creative, and winced at the cliché.
- With Frank on the board, corporate managements can sleep tight in the knowledge that Frank won't have a clue what's going on.
- So good night, sleep tight, hope the bugs don't bite.
- Goodnight sweetheart, sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite.
- Goodnight girls, sleep tight, help yourselves to anything in the car.
- It is incomprehensible to most westerners how anyone could sleep tight in a room six feet by four and a half by three and a bit.
Sleep very lightly, aware of what is happening around one. Example sentencesExamples - As deluxe as the accommodations were, we were constantly on the look-out for thugs and gangs - as well as police; and, slept with one eye open.
- She must have heard something because according to her father she slept with one eye open at all times.
- I have spent my life in an area where you needed to sleep with one eye open to survive.
- We had to basically sleep with one eye open at all times, because we had an environment there that was ripe for chaos.
- I set his crib next to my bed, and I slept with one eye open.
- So, if I were you, tonight I'd sleep with one eye open.
- Brown gives the impression these days that, like the proverbial fox, he sleeps with one eye open.
- If you don't sleep with one eye open you're going to be in deep trouble tomorrow.
- It was very scary; I had to sleep with one eye open.
- I'm sleeping with one eye open because it's disturbing.
Phrasal Verbs Have many casual sexual partners. Example sentencesExamples - It is assumed that you only get pregnant if you sleep around.
- I wish my roommate could stop sleeping around with every man she comes into contact with.
- When he did, she was angry and admitted she had been sleeping around during their entire relationship.
- Threesomes are very common in gay relationships, often though they are used as a way to appease a partner who wants to sleep around.
- He is not sleeping around outside of our marriage, as far as I know.
- They are lovers, but he sleeps around with other women too.
- She knows he is sleeping around but she won't use condoms because ‘that would look as if I don't trust him.’
- Now, she just felt like a person who sleeps around seeking sexual gratification.
- Before I met him, he was quite wild - drinking and sleeping around.
- But anyone can sleep around, what is risqué about that?
1Remain asleep or in bed later than usual in the morning. Example sentencesExamples - We usually slept in Sunday mornings, waking just in time for her favorite cartoons.
- The weather is clear, and crisp, it's not icy underfoot, and after a tiring week, we sleep in and miss the morning.
- As is my wont, I slept in this morning and made up for a few short nights earlier in the week.
- Sunday mornings are for sleeping in, not for physical exertion with the pub footie team.
- Meanwhile, my sleeping in this morning meant Katharine had to get her own breakfast.
- Just because she had slept in on one morning did not mean that everybody had to be offensive.
- I let myself sleep in for ages this morning because I need all the energy I can get at the moment.
- I need to stop sleeping in on weekends, no matter how good it feels to do so.
- I was too tired to get up and go to school for 8 in the morning so I just slept in.
- The next morning we all slept in, but when we got up we were ravenous.
- 1.1Sleep by night at one's place of work.
Example sentencesExamples - At the new home, the staff who sleep in overnight did not like being disturbed during the night.
- A team of seven staff works at the home with at least two staff on duty at all times during the day and one sleeping in overnight.
- It was a cool hotel and I didn't mind at all that I had to sleep in for one night.
Example sentencesExamples - 152 respondents were sleeping out in a wide variety of locations with parks, streets and squats being the most common
- United fans slept out overnight at the weekend to guarantee themselves a place at the second leg of the club's first League Cup semi-final and the tickets sold out.
- The semi-rectangular bag stuffs down to the size of a two-liter bottle - tuck it into a waist pack and fellow hikers will never suspect you're sleeping out.
- I slept out under the stars at Sunset Huts who were good enough to let me use their facilities.
- ‘No matter what they say, this will mean more people sleeping out on Darling St,’ Dr Lennane said.
- Far too many people, especially young people, are sleeping out on the streets every night, and many are aged 13 to 16.
- Imagine sleeping out in the open in temperatures touching freezing.
- We slept out on the floor of the desert with the vast sky overreaching, flooded with stars.
- This will be the first time for many of the Beavers to sleep out and we hope they have a great night.
- Cornell was a collegiate hockey powerhouse, and I was a season ticket holder each of my four years there, which necessitated sleeping out a couple of nights just to get tickets.
Spend the night at a place other than one's own home. Katie was asked to sleep over with Jenny Example sentencesExamples - Evander had slept over a night here and there since moving out of course, but never prolonged his stay more than he had to.
- One night when I slept over she told me she was going to cut off all my hair when I fell asleep.
- Last night I slept over at my parents' house, in my old room, in my old bed.
- Jade was sleeping over that night and they was making the best of it by watching movies, and eating popcorn.
- Well, he slept over with Chris last night, and in the morning he was gone, and he hasn't returned yet.
- Although we had spend several Friday or Saturday nights together sleeping over during that summer, this was very special.
- Kari had slept over for the night, in yet another room.
- She told the other girls, who had slept over the night before.
- I'm no longer hung up on Jesse which is a good thing because he's coming to sleep over in three nights.
- If you're going to have a big night, plan to sleep over or catch a cab.
Dispel the effects of or recover from something by going to sleep. she thought it wise to let him sleep off his hangover Example sentencesExamples - I spent yesterday afternoon on the couch, trying to sleep it off, or at least rest it off.
- You sample everything, then sleep it off, and come back next night again for dinner.
- We slept hangovers off together and it felt so nice just to be close to someone, to him.
- She laughed and lay on our bed, her arms round me, while I slept it off.
- I return about 11 am hoping he would be sleeping it off.
- She went to bed after taking a couple of painkillers hoping to sleep the pain off, but her husband was later unable to wake her up.
- My father slept, or I should say slept it off, in the master bedroom.
- Just before 3 am I get back to my room and sleep it off.
- Instead, she says, the advice would be to help your child to bed, let them sleep it off, then discuss things in a rational way once you have calmed down.
- The second time, I slept it off for two days at home and didn't even call the psychiatrist.
- Stay tuned for further reports just as soon as Aaron has slept it off.
- But instead of waiting until he sobered up or slept it off, she would launch into him.
- We are saying do not drink and drive, get a designated driver or sleep it off.
Origin Old English slēp, slǣp (noun), slēpan, slǣpan (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch slapen and German schlafen. |