Sentence examples for slumbered from inspiring English sources

The phrase "slumbered" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that is in a state of sleep or inactivity. Example: "The village slumbered peacefully under the blanket of stars, unaware of the approaching storm."

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slumbered

verb

Past of slumber

Exact(56)

Since then the utility market has slumbered, but if cells are cheap it does not take much to make stacking them up in the sun look attractive.

The white Victorian terraces slumbered scruffily in the sun.If the blockage was not too severe she could sometimes cure it with a coffee and a cigarette at the Café Delancey, before they shut it down.

Nancy Reagan was not with him the night a hurricane hit the White House in 1985, so he slumbered right through, and was puzzled to find both doors of their bedroom suite blown open the next morning.

Subjection of Nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground — what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labor?

And as I lay and leaned and looked on the waters, I slumbered into a sleeping, it sweyed so merry.

How long it had slumbered was unclear.

Maybe it was the stress of his high-pressure job that weakened his immune system, or maybe the disease had just finally started to progress as we slumbered, forgetting to monitor his blood.

In another corner, a group of older travelers slumbered in their bags around a table holding a well-thumbed copy of "Stokes Field Guide to Birds".

HARIDWAR, India — The sun slumbered well beneath the horizon, but Swami Ramdev had been up for hours.

The engineer in charge was Isaac C. Buckhout; most of his big brownstone monster has slumbered undisturbed.

I did not levitate, just slumbered peacefully inches from the floor on a futon mattress that was as firm as it was yielding, lying beneath a comforter both weightless and substantial.

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