slumber
verb (used without object)
to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
have slumbered
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present perfectof slumber.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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According to it the Witches and their prophecies are to be taken merely as symbolical representations of thoughts and desires which have slumbered in Macbeth's breast and now rise into consciousness and confront him.
From Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley
"My child, the sun is near his setting; you have slumbered long."
From Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz
Had Luther written for the learned, the words which changed the face of Europe would have slumbered in impotence on the bookshelves.
From Short Studies on Great Subjects by James Anthony Froude
In these few days of freedom she had regained the frank friendliness, the gracious speech, which seemed to have slumbered inside the narrow walls of her convent.
From An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal
I also might have slumbered like you, this new year's night with dry eyes, had I chosen it.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. 22, March, 1852, Volume 4. by
