slept in; sleeping in; sleeps in
1
: to sleep where one is employed
2
a
b
: to sleep late intentionally
Examples of sleep-in in a Sentence
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Selome Hailu, Variety, 20 Apr. 2023
Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Overall, about half of the participants reported co-sleeping with pets – defined in our study as sleeping in the same room with your pet for at least part of the night.
—Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
Try to optimize your sleeping conditions as much as possible, such as by sleeping in a dark and cool room and asking family members to respect your sleep schedule, Benedict said.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN, 3 Apr. 2024
Any Sacrifices So wait in traffic, camp or sleep in the car, eat simple food for a few hours to get yourself in the right place at the right time, then back home afterward.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
At her current shelter, 60 people are sleeping in the same room.
—Elissa Nadworny, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
Back in the 1870s, Fort Worth was said to be such a sleepy, drowsy town that a mountain lion slept in the street.
—Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2024
Additionally, shortly after acquiring X in 2022, Musk—who is slipping down the rankings of the world’s rich list—began sleeping in the offices at Twitter, as it was known then.
—Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
That’s because the 25-year-old content creator, entrepreneur and philanthropist sleeps in his office—just down the hall from the business operations in his North Carolina studio.
—Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
Adjective
After a day of Janine avoiding Gregory, the two finally start to hash it out during a sleep-in field trip at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 20 Apr. 2023
Verb
The heist occurred during a 27-minute window in which one driver slept in the vehicle’s sleeper berth and another ate a meal at the Flying J, a sprawling truck stop just off Interstate 5’s sinuous Grapevine in Lebec, Calif.
That crime remains unsolved.
—Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Overall, about half of the participants reported co-sleeping with pets – defined in our study as sleeping in the same room with your pet for at least part of the night.
—Discover Magazine, 4 Apr. 2024
Try to optimize your sleeping conditions as much as possible, such as by sleeping in a dark and cool room and asking family members to respect your sleep schedule, Benedict said.
—Kristen Rogers, CNN, 3 Apr. 2024
Any Sacrifices So wait in traffic, camp or sleep in the car, eat simple food for a few hours to get yourself in the right place at the right time, then back home afterward.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
At her current shelter, 60 people are sleeping in the same room.
—Elissa Nadworny, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
Back in the 1870s, Fort Worth was said to be such a sleepy, drowsy town that a mountain lion slept in the street.
—Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2024
Additionally, shortly after acquiring X in 2022, Musk—who is slipping down the rankings of the world’s rich list—began sleeping in the offices at Twitter, as it was known then.
—Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
That’s because the 25-year-old content creator, entrepreneur and philanthropist sleeps in his office—just down the hall from the business operations in his North Carolina studio.
—Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2024
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“Sleep-in.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sleep-in. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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