Sentence examples for we slumber from inspiring English sources

So do alpha waves really disappear when we slumber?

It's obvious that we need to sleep to feel rested and for our mind to function well - but the biological processes that go on as we slumber have only started to be uncovered relatively recently.

As we slumber on a metal coil-spring mattress, a wave of electromagnetic radiation envelops our bodies so that the maximum strength of the field develops 75 centimeters above the mattress in the middle of our bodies.

Then we slumbered in a stoned fever, heads lolling on one another's shoulders, as we rode home on the Long Island Rail Road.

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.

As Eduardo Gamarra, director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center at Florida International University, put it: "We've woken up from the slumber we were in for the last few years to realize our chances of getting this thing are really in jeopardy.

And in our slumber, we've ignored what's really important – more important than wages, than jobs, than healthcare or education – we've ignored power and politics.

A construction engineer accidentally wakes one up (after centuries of slumber, we infer), and it turns out to be smart, evolved, fertile and not open to the idea of sharing the planet with humans.

"The Nightmare," the Romantic painting by Henry Fuseli, became one of the most reproduced images in European art; its ravished sleeper, with her soft, outflung limbs entwined in gauzy bedclothes, suggested that in slumber we are subject to bewitching depredations beyond our control.

We continue to slumber, unaware that our minds are playing out a little fantasy in our sleep.

As we slipped into slumber, Nina Kraviz's slinky set could be heard from miles away, rolling on until the early hours of mid-morning.