Example Sentences

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Dormant supermassive black holes, he predicted, are slumbering all around us in the hearts of nearly all spiral galaxies, including our own.

From Scientific American • Sep. 19, 2022

Instead, he said, they just went to sleep after their heavy meals—dormant supermassive black holes, he predicted, are slumbering all around us in the hearts of spiral galaxies, including our own.

From Scientific American • May 12, 2022

The men — Robert Redford and Nick Nolte — are slumbering in their tents when the bears descend and begin tearing into the hikers’ food, which they have failed to properly stash.

From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2015

"Our souls are slumbering in moral indifference," said Rabbi Edward Cohn of the Temple Sinai in New Orleans.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2011

Epics which in their present form date from Christian times make vaferflames burn around castles, where goddesses, pricked by sleep-thorns, are slumbering.

From Teutonic Mythology, Vol. 1 of 3 Gods and Goddesses of the Northland by Ph.D.