slumber
verb (used without object)
to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
have been slumbering
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present perfect progressiveof slumber.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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The echoes have been slumbering at Notre Dame for more than two decades.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 19, 2019
But darling, if familiar with that form of address, must have been slumbering, for she never turned or moved a hair's-breadth or gave a symptom of intelligence.
From The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake by Ernest Thompson Seton
You will find some who have been slumbering upon the very precipice of ruin, rallying round your standard.
From Select Temperance Tracts by American Tract Society
For a quarter of a century my notes have been slumbering, dustily, in a corner of my library.
From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
The junks spread their great white or yellow wings, and the funnels of the little steamers which have been slumbering all night by the wharves begin to smoke.
From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series by Lafcadio Hearn
