Sentence examples for they slumber from inspiring English sources

These subjects of the folkloric nighttime adieu "don't let the bed bugs bite" will hide under mattresses and other furniture, biting their hosts while they slumber.

The business of frightening children as they slumber, is as difficult as it is dangerous.

Are these the graves they slumber in?" But a still more inhuman, disgraceful, and scandalous state of things remains to be presented.

In an irresistibly eerie twist, those who fall ill, based on brain scans, appear to be dreaming vividly as they slumber.

YANKEES: They slumbered into the second round of the playoffs but came alive starting in the eighth inning of Game 2, producing 33 runs in the last 36 innings.

That looked unthinkable when they slumbered to a goalless home draw with Middlesbrough at the end of August, when a few rumbles of discontent could be heard from West Brom's fans about their team's style of football.

It might be said that the zebra finches were practising their songs while they slumbered.

Soon, the cold weather of autumn will render them torpid and they will slumber their way through the winter towards spring – a behaviour that I have occasionally envied.

The next morning they're slumbering peacefully away at 5am when Tim Gunn walks in to tell them to come downstairs as they are -- in PJ's -- and bring one sheet with them.

Curled or contorted into lifeless poses, they resemble slumbering animals, some starved to the bone, others bloated and sluggish.

Then Wednesday afternoon came along and they watched slumbering Dodger bats awaken with four home runs, and Zack Greinke dance though early inning rain drops before dominating Cardinals hitters.