sleep off
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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"I have spent most of my time in bed just trying to sleep off the pain in my head," she told the BBC in 2018, just before she travelled to Germany for the operation.
From BBC ● Dec. 4, 2024
Blood filled a vial, and as the monkey was carried back to its cage to sleep off the sedatives, Nava dropped the vial into a tank of liquid nitrogen — another sample for her database.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2021
Retiring to one's favorite recliner or deep sofa to sleep off an excess of tryptophan-laden turkey is not so much the Canadian norm.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2021
Fred Smith usually will be getting ready for bed when his phone rings, ready to sleep off another day as the founder and CEO of FedEx, but he always takes his son’s call.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 9, 2020
I wiped the sleep off my face and cleared the night before from my throat.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
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