sleep with
phrasal verb
slept with; sleeping with; sleeps with
informal
: to have sex with (someone)
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What people didn't know was that Anderson was also sleeping with the man's wife.
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Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
The young bride recalls having to sleep in a new house with a new family soon after the wedding, having always slept with her mother at home until then.
—Carlotta Dotto, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
Along the way, Arenas is imprisoned for admitting to having slept with 5,000 men and eventually flees Cuba on the Mariel boatlift.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 25 Sep. 2025
Even Rose steps out, sleeping with a graduate student, partly because Tom won’t stop pining for Vivien, his inaccessible ghost.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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Paige Moore, AZCentral.com, 3 Oct. 2025
The young bride recalls having to sleep in a new house with a new family soon after the wedding, having always slept with her mother at home until then.
—Carlotta Dotto, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2025
Along the way, Arenas is imprisoned for admitting to having slept with 5,000 men and eventually flees Cuba on the Mariel boatlift.
—Mathew Rodriguez, Them., 25 Sep. 2025
Even Rose steps out, sleeping with a graduate student, partly because Tom won’t stop pining for Vivien, his inaccessible ghost.
—Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for sleep with
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“Sleep with.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sleep%20with. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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