Sentence examples for as a sleeper from inspiring English sources

"She is already in the Olympics as a sleeper," Nicola said with a laugh.

We can see it as a sleeper, stirring in its slumber.

But it's a little difficult to think of one of Mr. Nolan's films as a sleeper, at this point.

A member of the Transport and General Workers Union was described as "a sleeper and should be watched".

Mr. Montgomery cites this book — about a constable trying to solve a group of seemingly unconnected killings — as a sleeper that deserves wider attention.

In comparing this borough of nearly 8,000 residents with other, better-known Bergen municipalities, like Ridgewood and Paramus, she described it as a "sleeper town".

"Seabiscuit: An American Legend," Laura Hillenbrand's atmospheric, prodigiously detailed book about the racehorse, was as much a sleeper on best-seller lists as Seabiscuit was on the track in the late 30's.

Still, Republican Party officials here and in Minneapolis this week reacted to various Rage endeavors as if a sleeper cell were in their midst.

But interestingly, he seems to be emerging as something of a sleeper.

The indictment portrayed him as the handler of a "sleeper operational combat cell" based in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn, home to the nation's most concentrated population of Arab-Americans.

Prosecutors and defense lawyers sparred here today over the significance of Islamic tapes and documents seized from six young men charged by the government as being part of a sleeper cell of Al Qaeda.