Sentence examples for sleep escaped from inspiring English sources

Later, reconstructing the conversation during what was to be the first night of her life that sleep escaped her entirely, she replied, "Not at all," but at the time she'd barely murmured a word.

Rich or poor, native or immigrant, on deck chair or cardboard box, New Yorkers are on their roofs for just a few weeks more, to watch, rest, play, drink, romance, smoke, hide, show, gasp, sleep, escape.

What has been preoccupying me these last three days (and nights; sleep escapes me since I learnt of this) is the fact that, as part of their punishment, the rugby team will have to stop tying their public school ties in tight knots around each others' dicks and instead attend a lecture on "the negative effects of banter".

The two men — who piled sheets under their blankets to make it appear that they were sleeping — escaped on Dec. 14 by squeezing through a hole they had dug through a cinder-block cell wall, and covering the hole with a pinup photo.

But the harder they try, the more sleep escapes them.

In a lotta places we can stand on the river and see Virginia.' Sleep had escaped him now, but it was gaining on her, and at last he had to pick her up and carry her to bed.

In the still of the night, sleep often escaped me and I wondered if the pain would ever end.

Go to bed hungry, and sleep likewise escapes your grasp.

Your cat should have a place to play, sleep, and escape in case it wants some alone time.

Then build a shelter for them to sleep and escape from rain, hail, snow and other adverse weather conditions.

He was tormented by a "terrifying, nonselective memory": he could recall the name of every person he ever met and lost sleep when one escaped him.