Sentence examples for were trying to sleep from inspiring English sources

Many men were trying to sleep outside.

Giagnocavo said many passengers were trying to sleep through the overnight flight and were strapped in.

Mumbling incoherently, the officials said, he stumbled repeatedly over prisoners who were trying to sleep.

After twenty minutes, we were admitted to the inner courtyard, where off-duty marines and aid workers were trying to sleep on cots in the sun.

"Living just at the railroad tracks, it seemed like the train was going to come in the house while you were trying to sleep," he said.

The building's management had deemed the problem irreparable, and settled for turning off the ventilators when the penthouse's residents were trying to sleep.

"Excuse me, I'm trying to sleep"?

I'm trying to sleep more.

He says he's trying to sleep.

But he was trying to sleep.

When I'm trying to sleep.