Example Sentences

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Parts of him that had long slumbered were waking up.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2025

Before Page Dickey and Francis Bosco Schell spent a single night in their house in northwestern Connecticut, clay pots of flower bulbs slumbered there, setting down roots in a space of their own.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2023

While RSV and influenza slumbered these past few years, society was learning an unprecedented amount about their behavior and the effect public health actions have on them.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2022

The offense that had awoken in June has largely slumbered in July, and it had been especially silent through the first two games in Baltimore.

From Washington Times • Jul. 25, 2021

The bookshelves with their neatly ordered manuscripts slumbered in the shadows, while overhead pale moonlight wafted through the stained glass windows, lighting on the bronze statues of past Librarians standing vigil over the galleries.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee