Examples of sleep out in a Sentence
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Afraid their houses may collapse at any moment, families are sleeping out in the open along roadsides near their homes.
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Sarah Ferguson, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
In the early evening hours and throughout the night, mosquitoes can no longer feast on anoles, which typically sleep out in the open.
—Denise Hruby, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2025
In other research on exercise and sleep out of Iowa State University, study participants were grouped into resistance training workouts, aerobic workouts, and combination workouts (both resistance and aerobic exercise).
—Laura Hensley, Verywell Health, 28 June 2024
Still, the protesters slept out in the open after police took their tents, despite temperatures in the low 30s.
—Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2024
Families are sleeping out in the open, with limited water and no lights, heaters, or bathroom facilities.
—Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2023
Many more slept out in the open in the streets even as the airstrikes, including on southern Gaza, continued.
—Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
People are still sleeping out in the open streets or on a football field nearby.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 10 Sep. 2023
Several deaths have been reported, according to local news reports, which also relayed that people were sleeping out in the street in the town of Huetamo, where power outages persisted for days.
—Evan Halper, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
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Sarah Ferguson, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
In the early evening hours and throughout the night, mosquitoes can no longer feast on anoles, which typically sleep out in the open.
—Denise Hruby, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2025
In other research on exercise and sleep out of Iowa State University, study participants were grouped into resistance training workouts, aerobic workouts, and combination workouts (both resistance and aerobic exercise).
—Laura Hensley, Verywell Health, 28 June 2024
Still, the protesters slept out in the open after police took their tents, despite temperatures in the low 30s.
—Alison Cross, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2024
Families are sleeping out in the open, with limited water and no lights, heaters, or bathroom facilities.
—Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2023
Many more slept out in the open in the streets even as the airstrikes, including on southern Gaza, continued.
—Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
People are still sleeping out in the open streets or on a football field nearby.
—Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 10 Sep. 2023
Several deaths have been reported, according to local news reports, which also relayed that people were sleeping out in the street in the town of Huetamo, where power outages persisted for days.
—Evan Halper, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
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“Sleep out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sleep%20out. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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