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present participle and gerund of sleep quotations examples
‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess
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Asleep. quotations examples
Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found.
2013 July 19, Ian Sample, “Irregular bedtimes may affect children's brains”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 34
Used for sleep; used to produce sleep. examples
countable and uncountable, plural sleepings
The state of being asleep, or an instance of this. quotations examples
And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres / I slombred in a slepyng, it swyved so merye.
c. 1380, William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, section I
[…] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings.
1995, Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, page 144