sleepover
an instance of sleeping over, as at another person's house.
a person who sleeps over.
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How to use sleepover in a sentence
Biles’s gym outside Houston, for instance, will be the site of a sleepover for many Olympic gymnasts’ families, complete with an on-camera predawn watch party to see loved ones compete.
For NBC, the covid Olympics will be a feat of strange movements and remote mystery | Steven Zeitchik | July 23, 2021 | Washington PostIt was the source of conversations at sleepovers, as we learned to name things, including ourselves.
After I turned 16, my best friend and I had a sleepover and wept so many tears because suddenly I was “so old” and obviously could no longer relate to “Fifteen” and all its youthfulness.
The Significance of Taylor Swift's Fearless in 2008—and How Taylor's Version Stacks Up | TIME Staff | April 9, 2021 | TimeOther once-normal things like indoor playdates and sleepovers will still technically carry more risk than those that are outdoors or highly regulated.
As more adults get vaccinated, kids’ lives can start returning to normal too | Katherine Harmon Courage | March 19, 2021 | VoxI imagine it might happen the first time I let my kids go to a sleepover, or I visit my parents, or travel on a train or plane with strangers.
Coronavirus is testing those of us with anxiety. We need to have mental health help available when the pandemic ends. | Sarah Vander Schaaff | January 30, 2021 | Washington Post
There were mats everywhere and it was like a big rainy-day sleepover with most of the cast.
Orange Is the New Black’s Kimiko Glenn on Hippie Brook Soso and Chapel Sex with Natasha Lyonne | Marlow Stern | June 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe video proceeds to offer us a vision of a sort-of Japan, while the lyrics describe the most vague sleepover of all time.
Avril Lavigne’s Dumb ‘Hello Kitty’ Video Is Rife with Cultural Appropriation | Amy Zimmerman | April 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMax Friedlich has written one of the most buzzed-about plays, ‘sleepover,’ at the New York Fringe Festival.
Max Friedlich, Teenage Playwright, Dazzles With Controversial ‘SleepOver’ | Ramin Setoodeh | August 24, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the six months since our sleepover, her text messages have become my favorite part of the day.
British Dictionary definitions for sleepover
/ (ˈsliːpˌəʊvə) /
informal, mainly US an instance of spending the night at someone else's home
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Other Idioms and Phrases with sleepover
Spend the night as a guest in another's home, as in Karen's friend Wilma is going to sleep over tonight. [Second half of 1800s]
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