Example Sentences

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RB Christine Michael: The Awakening has slumbered a bit the last few weeks — Michael has 214 yards on 62 carries the last four games, 3.45 yards per carry.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 7, 2016

Jones, who has slumbered through slow starts recently, appeared energized.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2011

Up for grabs was the richly carved and graven Temple of Dendur, Greco-Roman Egyptian ruin that has slumbered for 2,000 years in the crystalline Egyptian sunlight, 130 miles up the Nile from Luxor.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under the bland rule of Dictator Ant�nio de Oliveira Salazar, 70, Portugal has slumbered for more than a quarter century.

From Time Magazine Archive

I have stirred up the stagnations of my own emotional life, the pride that has slumbered, the hopes and disappointments that have not troubled me for years.

From A Modern Utopia by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)