Word Finder - sleep

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To rest in a state of reduced consciousness.

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You should sleep 8 hours a day.

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(of a spinning top or yo-yo) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.

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To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion.

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To accommodate in beds.

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This caravan can sleep four people comfortably.

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To be slumbering in (a state).

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to sleep a dreamless sleep

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To be careless, inattentive, or unconcerned; not to be vigilant; to live thoughtlessly.

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To be dead; to lie in the grave.

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To be, or appear to be, in repose; to be quiet; to be unemployed, unused, or unagitated; to rest; to lie dormant.

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a question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps

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To wait for a period of time without performing any action.

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After a failed connection attempt, the program sleeps for 5 seconds before trying again.

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To place into a state of hibernation.

Are you wiping the sleep from your eyes?

You'd better sleep in.

Even in sleep he was irresistible.

I went to sleep last night, almost as soon as my head hit the pillow.

Have a nice sleep.

But the nearer he drew to the house the more he felt the impossibility of going to sleep on such a night.

I don't sleep at night.

I'd love to sleep there.

The poor guy probably didn't sleep a wink.

Did you sleep alright?

Sleep meant one thing – nightmares.

Now go to sleep, and there's an end of it.

Try to sleep... please!

The medication they were giving her to clear up the congestion in her lungs was making her sleep a lot, but they thought that was better than having her upset all the time.

I can't sleep well here.

If I don't sleep for three nights I'll not leave this passage and will hold her back by force and will and not let the family be disgraced, thought she.

She wasn't going to be able to sleep any more.

She was exhausted but sleep seemed unlikely.

When he was refreshed with food and sleep, he contemplated his journey again.

The old prince did not sleep either.

Daddy went home to sleep.

Where did you plan to sleep tonight?

This isn't normal sleep.

Alex must have told the carpenters to stop working so she could sleep during the day.

Sleep came without definition, as did the dream.

She was exhausted but couldn't sleep.

Couldn't sleep, so I decided to get up and fix breakfast.

Karl Ivanich always says that sleep is more important than anything, whispered Princess Mary with a sigh.

The child moved slightly in his sleep, smiled, and rubbed his forehead against the pillow.

I won't, I can't sleep, what's the use?

It seemed that she had barely dropped off to sleep, before someone was pounding on her door.

All the activity and lack of sleep was catching up with her and she was exhausted.

Now, with only a few hours sleep, he was walking while she rode.

The little man, having had a good sleep, felt rested and refreshed, and looking through the glass partition of the room he saw Zeb sitting up on his bench and yawning.

I think I'll sleep in tomorrow, so don't bother to get up early.

She murmured in her sleep when he bit her.

But it is a long time since I have had any sleep, and I'm tired.

It was much easier to sleep with his protective arm around her waist.

I'll show you where you will sleep while Cynthia gets supper on the table.

I'd sleep a bit and then again go and kiss the relics, and there was such peace all around, such blessedness, that one don't want to come out, even into the light of heaven again.

She had to eat, sleep, think, speak, weep, work, give vent to her anger, and so on, merely because she had a stomach, a brain, muscles, nerves, and a liver.

Sleep seemed unlikely, but it must have happened shortly after her head hit the pillow.

You're not going to sleep a wink tonight.

Once Howie succumbed to slumber, his sleep was anything but peaceful.

Eventually, rain drumming on the porch roof lulled her back to sleep.

But her appetite, which left her a few weeks ago, has returned, and her sleep seems more quiet and natural.

It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or cohabit, or sleep sensually.

If you don't get some sleep when you go home, you won't be able to relieve me tonight.

She curled into a ball and tried to go back to sleep.

Was it possible for him to sleep through this weather?