Sentence examples for slumber like from inspiring English sources

Stunned by what I saw as control-freakery and barbarism I resolved to put my baby to my breast when she was hungry, and there she would fall into deep slumber, like a good little hunter-gatherer bairn.

Domestic economic reinvestment continues to slumber like Sleeping Beauty waiting for true love's kiss.

Once the piece is turned on, the creepy forms come shifting mechanically to life, waking from their slumber like clockwork disciples, chattering away inanely, praying, swearing, smoking, and talking solemnly about fast food orders while humans with real bird skulls for heads dot the table in various positions some sexual, others desperate, some involving red liquid.

I felt impossibly torn, wanting to spend time with my family making holiday memories, wanting to be there for my dad should he rouse from his slumber-like state, somehow benefitting from my presence at his bedside.

At left center an island slumbers like a beached seal, a white mustache drooping off it to the water.

And even as he slumbers like countless other college students, he says, he feels strange, as if the world around him had shifted into a slower gear.

Ancient civilisations worshipped him as a god, yet the film now finds him awakening after several millennia of slumber, and not liking what he sees.

To send it off into its Brünnhilde-like slumber, a gala concert called "Good Night Alice" was held on Monday night, showcasing most of the hall's major functions and tenants over the last 38 years.

To be honest, it was all a bit overwhelming, so I had to go for a little lie down - and ended up falling into a deep coma-like slumber all afternoon.

Growth stocks are also on a sneaky winning streak this year after a long Cub-like slumber.

She emerges, after Orlando's strange slumber of several days, like a goddess floating on an Empyrean cloud, absolutely unclothed and indisputably female.