Sentence examples for dead sleep from inspiring English sources
noun
The first sleep of the night in a biphasic sleep pattern.
13 1 DEAD SLEEP, by Greg Iles.
I woke from a dead sleep in dead darkness to hear… what?
For centuries we were accustomed to the idea of "first sleep" or "dead sleep" and "second sleep".
An imported temperamental Italian tenor, who is scheduled to play the Moor in the gala Cleveland opening of Verdi's "Otello," is inadvertently drugged into a dead sleep.
In "Spring Shade," a collection of his own poems, the last lines of the first poem read: The dead Sleep light this wind being overhead.
Greg Illes, author of best-selling novels including "Dead Sleep," has signed a new contract with Scribner, part of Viacom's Simon & Schuster publishing division.
Several witnesses testified that the lawyer, Joe Cannon, now dead, slept at the 1984 trial, his head drooping and sometimes resting on the table.
Two members of the three-judge panel hearing the appeal ruled that Mr. Burdine, 47, had not shown that his lawyer, Joe Cannon, now dead, slept in critical parts of the trial.
Worst-case scenario: The dreamer becomes Dead in Sleep.
Although a major proportion of children were found dead during sleep, a significant number were described as being awake at time of death (32%).
Scans from The Dead Never Sleep.
