Sentence examples for like a sleeper from inspiring English sources

It was like a sleeper in a nightmare, enveloped by a thousand phantoms of destruction".

The wave paused, and then drew out again, sighing like a sleeper whose breath comes and goes unconsciously.

"We're more concerned with small groups — a car dealer, a grocer, or whatever, who operate in a traditional way like a sleeper cell would operate".

Factor in the chance to please nature lovers, and this quiet next-door neighbor to popular Little Compton begins to look like a sleeper to pay attention to in the second-home sweepstakes.

The theaters for "The Retreat From Moscow" and "Anna in the Tropics" have been about half full, and even "Golda's Balcony," which looked like a sleeper in midfall, has lost some steam.

Then a snowfall comes, like the one that covered New York early this month, and a garden can look like a sleeper who has turned and pulled the covers up over his head.

As for me, I've always liked Valpolicella as a sleeper, one that came into its own as a serious table wine a decade ago, and is now a better bargain than Tuscan wines.

It's what people in the press like to call a sleeper hit – terrific reviews just about convinced the public to part with their cash for one of 1991's most special games.

Well, for a while it looked like it might be a sleeper.

He said Mr Scargill struck himself accidentally against what looked like a railway sleeper.

Fox looks to me like a corporate sleeper cell implanted in government.