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Recent Examples of sleep in
Guests have the option of sleeping in the sparsely furnished but comfortable nuns’ quarters, which start at around 200 dollars per night.
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Vjosa Isai, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
The family all sleep in the same room, behind another curtain, on mattresses on the floor.
—Greg Presto, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
Their family home had just one room, which meant Appiah slept in the same bed as his mother and older sister.
—Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2025
Since hair is weakest when wet, sleeping in wet hair can cause hair to become dry and brittle, causing split ends, breakage, and fallout.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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Vjosa Isai, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
The family all sleep in the same room, behind another curtain, on mattresses on the floor.
—Greg Presto, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
Their family home had just one room, which meant Appiah slept in the same bed as his mother and older sister.
—Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2025
Since hair is weakest when wet, sleeping in wet hair can cause hair to become dry and brittle, causing split ends, breakage, and fallout.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sleep in
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The afternoon of Tuesday, Jan. 21, a school bus dropped off the Hernando County student, who then began walking north alongside an unpaved and unmarked road in Brooksville, according to law enforcement.—
Olivia Lloyd,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2025
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The safety play dropped off after the free-agent departures of Xavier McKinney and Julian Love in the past two offseasons.—
Dan Duggan,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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The photo-happy couple is still sharing snapshots of one another, with the Rhode founder posting a series of Instagram photos on Tuesday that included her musician husband nodding off across from her.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA TODAY,
22 Jan. 2025
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As one mother nodded off, her eyelids heavy, a nurse came in and whisked her baby away.—
Bryant Rousseau,
New York Times,
29 Dec. 2024
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Last spring, the Today show reported that people were oversleeping due to silent alarms.—
Jibin Joseph,
PCMAG,
10 Jan. 2025
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The Season 3 penultimate and finale episodes ‘Getting There’ and ‘Jews on a Plane’ aired on Comedy Central in 2016, the first half featuring the duo in a rush to get to the airport after oversleeping, forgetting a passport and getting stuck in the subway.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
5 Dec. 2024
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“Sleep in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sleep%20in. Accessed 2 Feb. 2025.
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