slumbering
- present participle of slumber.
Example Sentences
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The roughly 240 members of the Slumbering Groundhog Lodge there report the winter forecast from Octoraro Orphie, or least via his well-preserved remains.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2024
Slumbering among thousands of bacterial strains in a collection of natural specimens at The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, several fragile vials held something unexpected, and possibly very useful.
From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2023
Slumbering with a pet “may help out with anxiety and depression, because a dog is like a weighted blanket. It gives you that snuggling and cuddling effect,” he said.
From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2021
KILIS, Turkey — Slumbering amid olive and pistachio groves on a hot plain near the Syrian border, Kilis, Turkey, was for many decades a quiet backwater, surviving, but hardly prospering, on cross-border trade and smuggling.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2021
"Sepulchers in sad array Guard the ashes of the mighty Slumbering on the Appian Way."
From The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome by Anonymous
