Sentence examples for slumber of a from inspiring English sources

Bounkham "Bou Bou" Phonesavanh was sleeping the sound slumber of a 19-month-old in the early hours of May 28, when a Georgia SWAT team burst in unannounced through his relative's front door and tossed a flash bang grenade into his playpen that blasted off most of his nose, collapsed his left lung, and tore his face and body down to muscle and bone.

With the death penalty of his diagnosis looming, Walt wakes from the slumber of an unfulfilling life, evolving from feckless drudge to reluctant part-time criminal, then gradually to something worse.

That is a dream scenario that brightens the slumber of many a local political boss.

In fact, I needed three hours of stone-cold slumber on a Saturday afternoon before I could confront the awkwardness of my dating life (a distressing phenomenon that I believed had been safely banished during my 20s).

Visitors to the Museum of Modern Art were treated over the weekend to a view of the Scottish actor in a state of slumber for a piece titled The Maybe.

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

The "Prague" Symphony, admittedly, never quite roused itself from a slumber of sweet strings; the winds were too much at a distance.

Cornel West describes The New Jim Crow as "a grand wake-up call in the midst of a long slumber of indifference to the poor and vulnerable".

As global warming has climbed the political agenda, lawmakers have tried hard to rouse the nuclear industry from a slumber of decades.

The hot summers that the casks spend in the wine lodges in the city play a major role in concentrating and shaping the wine, and the eight winemaking companies on the island have learned to leverage the picturesque slumber of the wine as a promotional tool.

But every now and then, a pack of bluefish manages to pen up a pod of baitfish and, for a few minutes here and a few minutes there, the ocean rouses from its late summer slumber to a scene of tumult.