sleepover
noun
sleep·over
ˈslēp-ō-vər 
1
: an overnight stay (as at another's home)
2
: an instance of hosting a sleepover in one's home
Examples of sleepover in a Sentence
Our daughter is having a sleepover for her friends tomorrow.
Recent Examples on the Web
Milwaukee County residents can take an adoptable dog home for a weekend sleepover through MADACC's Weekenders Club program.
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Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2024
About 130 children took part in a sleepover at Rome’s opera house, part of a campaign to make up for a lack of music education by making the theater and the art form more familiar and accessible.
—Elisabetta Povoledo Alessandro Penso, New York Times, 13 May 2024
On May 31, 2014, Geyser and her friend, Anissa Weier, who was also 12 at the time, invited classmate Payton Leutner over for a sleepover and lured her into the woods in Waukesha, Wisconsin, not far from a suburban Milwaukee park.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2024
Or jumping on the bed with friends during a sleepover.
—Andrea Kane, CNN, 29 June 2024
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Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 10 July 2024
About 130 children took part in a sleepover at Rome’s opera house, part of a campaign to make up for a lack of music education by making the theater and the art form more familiar and accessible.
—Elisabetta Povoledo Alessandro Penso, New York Times, 13 May 2024
On May 31, 2014, Geyser and her friend, Anissa Weier, who was also 12 at the time, invited classmate Payton Leutner over for a sleepover and lured her into the woods in Waukesha, Wisconsin, not far from a suburban Milwaukee park.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2024
Or jumping on the bed with friends during a sleepover.
—Andrea Kane, CNN, 29 June 2024
See all Example Sentences for sleepover
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sleepover
noun
sleep·over
ˈslēp-ō-vər
: an overnight stay at another's home or an instance of having others stay at one's own home
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