8 sentences with 'sleeping'
Example sentences and phrases with the word sleeping and other words derived from it.
• « Bats must adopt the prone sleeping form because of the large size of their wings - disproportionate to their body - which would prevent them from fleeing quickly in case they were caught on the ground and during their sleep by a predatory animal. »
• « It is for no other reason that men who are on a diet and - unbeknownst to their sleeping wives - get up and try to echolocate the fridge by whistling softly in the darkness of the kitchen, generally end up tripping over the cat. »
• « Napoleon was indifferent to luxury and worked tirelessly, often sleeping only four or five hours a night, and his intellectual gifts (amazing powers of memory, above all) were such that he was able to effectively micromanage his entire empire through written directives to subordinates. »
• « Under the shelter of their sleeping bags and under the moonless sky, they soon fell into a deep sleep. »
• « He's losing a lot of blood, he thought with alarm; he grabbed the boy's sleeping bag and pressed it to his face. -Thom, help me! -he shouted. »
• « He had just woken up and saw the black figure of a wolf three feet away from his wife and son. He jumped out of his sleeping bag and began to shoo the intruder away, running towards him and shouting. Each time he did so, the wolf fled into the shadows of the woods, but then came back to Tracy and Zach from another direction. »
• « During Ramadan, Muslims engage in activities that they do not do in any other month of the year, such as visiting relatives, going out at night, eating in the street - after the gunshot that announces the end of the daily fast, of course - not sleeping and, above all, not working much. »