slept
Americanverb
verb
Other Word Forms
- underslept adjective
Example Sentences
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Until I took sick, I slept upstairs with my sisters where it was cold as the devil's heart.
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He slept on a lumpy couch, which he had to make and unmake every day.
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The houses promised by the government were incomplete, the cement still wet, so they slept outdoors at first, terrified of snakes and other wild animals in the bushy new clearing.
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And Mal would have slept, he could see, upright on a mountainside.
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I’m wearing the same clothes I slept in but who cares?
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