slumber
verb (used without object)
to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
will slumber
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future tenseof slumber.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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The slumberers will slumber on, and the worriers will worry, the serious people will go ponderously about until some one shows them how ridiculous they are and how pitiful.
From The Untroubled Mind by Herbert J. (Herbert James) Hall
After youthful pastime had, After old age hard and sad, Earth will slumber o'er us.
From Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse by John Addington Symonds
Those deeply graven images at times How they will slumber in us, seem forgotten, When all at once a word a tone, a gesture, Retraces all.
From Nathan the Wise; a dramatic poem in five acts by William Taylor
If harmless inertness could save him, it were well; but he will slumber and painfully dream, and to do aught is not given him.
From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle
She too will slumber, having found her goal.
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald
