Example Sentences

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Right now, Brood X’s Class of 2038 is slumbering below the frozen Earth, snuggled up near tree roots.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2022

But it is hard to keep watch over the fruit while it is slumbering, since opening up the storage rooms would send in a rush of oxygen and speed the apples’ aging.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2021

As I type this, the clock hands are creeping towards 2.30am, and my baby daughter is slumbering beside me having had her first feed of the night.

From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2017

I've never understood how anybody can be so inhuman as to rouse a person who is slumbering.

From The Children of the World by Heyse, Paul

Round him is slumbering a troop of dreadful forms, beings from darkness, the avengers.

From Authors of Greece by Lumb, T. W.