Sentence examples for counting sheep from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Count sheep.

If people cannot sleep, they are advised to count sheep mentally.

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It is like counting sheep.

Does counting sheep help you fall asleep?

"But counting sheep makes me hungry".

Forget counting sheep; I'm too busy counting dollars.

The government is back in the business of counting sheep.

Instead of counting sheep, I try visualising runaway cows, escaping across the backcountry.

An opera about counting sheep strikes one as decidedly normal in comparison.

And I often worry about lambs – counting sheep would be more likely to keep me awake.

I had retired on still active lobster, after twelve I lay counting sheep.

Dorothy Parker in "The Little Hours" scorned the practice of counting sheep to induce sleep: "I really can't be expected to drop everything and start counting sheep at my age.

THEY record their backyards' temperature every day for decades and count inches of snow while others are counting sheep.

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