Sentence examples for was literally sleeping from inspiring English sources

Elvis Summers, 38, said he was compelled to help Irene 'Smokie' McGee, who had been living on the streets for over a decade, after discovering she was literally sleeping on the pavement without so much as a cardboard box underneath her.

Earlier this spring, he was literally sleeping on friends' couches, eating one meal a day.

"There were a lot of nights when I was literally sleeping on the floor of my mother's bedroom because if she tried to get up she would fall.

"When I was working on the album I was literally sleeping here everyday," remembers Hus.

A few months after helping kill the bill, Bayh was literally sleeping at the Manhattan home of an Apollo executive, according to a Senate schedule the AP obtained.

Lopez pointed out a not-quite-as-fancy couch in the living room that was his reminder of worse times when he was literally sleeping on a couch.

So, passengers are literally sleeping head to toe.

"People are literally sleeping amongst the rubble," said Robert Turner, UNRWA's director in Gaza, noting that "virtually none" of the $5.4 billion in aid pledged to Gaza had been delivered.

I personally didn't really do this, but it was part of the program if you didn't complete your goals or something you said you were going to do, people were literally sleeping on the floor, or taking cold showers for a week.

I personally didn't really do this, but it was part of the program if you didn't complete your goals or something you said you were going to do, people were literally sleeping on the floor or taking cold showers for a week.

It's a strange phenomenon, really: Attendees were very eager to experience sleep deprivation virtually -- even though many of them were literally sleep deprived.