Sentence examples for slumber from from inspiring English sources

The system responds to fidgeting and can thus tell deep slumber from light, or from waking.

hurricane in 1926 blew Fort Lauderdale into a slumber from which it didn't awaken until the postwar boom -- and the invention of air-conditioning.

Mr. Oltzik's life would end not with a bang, but with the drip, drip, drip of an IV drug that put him into a slumber from which he would never awaken.

Katie Couric, who for 15 years has chased the slumber from the minds of the biggest portion of the morning television audience, has attributed her success to being "ridiculously normal," a person others see, as she once put it, "as someone they could have gone to high school with or someone who works at the desk next to them".

3 Sensorwake The aromatic alarm clock diffuses scents into the air to wake you from your slumber – from the aromas of coffee, mint or fresh grass to the smell of money – but will begin beeping if you don't wake up within two minutes.

Another magical operatic world in which Miranda is enchanted to sleep by her father, then awoken by Ferdinand, and in which Ariel puts a spell on the courts of Naples and Milan, sending them to a slumber from which they are awakened by Antonio and Sebastian's attempt to commit murder most foul.

As the black Chevrolet regained the highway and hurried on across a countryside imperceptibly ascending toward the colder, cracker-dry climate of the high wheat plains, Perry closed his eyes and dozed off into a food-dazed semi-slumber, from which he woke to hear a voice reading the eleven-o'clock news.

The government insisted that three counterterrorism laws that have slumbered from birth were imperative: the Alien Terrorist Removal Procedures, Section 412 of the Patriot Act, and the lone-wolf amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Then, one exhausted evening, as we transferred a slumbering Thomas from the car seat into his crib, where he promptly woke up screaming, Peter had an epiphany.

Rouse yourselves from slumber," Mr. Tomlinson sang.

"You shake our conscience from slumber," he said.