Sentence examples for to sleep rather from inspiring English sources

The house became a place to sleep rather than the family home it had been.

There's also plenty to be said for accustoming children to relaxing their bodies and succumbing to sleep, rather than fighting it.

Zwingli, though an accomplished musician, considered that the function of music was to put the babies to sleep rather than to worship God.

There is not one night I wish I would've stayed home to sleep rather than scurrying around the hospital taking care of them.

"Just as there are some people who prefer to travel without checked baggage, or to sleep rather than eat… there are some who would rather travel with adults.

Like an antelope, the creature has long, spindly legs relative to its body size, and hunkers down next to bushes to sleep rather than burrowing.

This will help make sure that your nose effectively drains while you sleep rather than getting even more clogged up.

This time he won by 4,654, an event so earth-shattering that he allowed himself to sleep in rather than show up for his usual 7 a.m.

It is like a lullaby but more upbeat, meant not to put an infant to sleep but, rather, to communicate a mother's presence when a task takes her beyond touch or out of sight.

Anthropologist Richard Wrangham, in his book Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human, expained how campfires coaxed us out of the trees and on to the ground, to sleep together rather than apart.

That pesky voice that tells me it's OK to sleep in rather than get up and go for a walk, or that it's OK to skip an exercise class in order to go for a drink with friends – that voice gets way too much airtime with me.