to sleep
idiom
: until one/someone falls asleep
The baby cried himself to sleep. I rocked the baby to sleep.
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The mortuary owner permitted Gacy to sleep in a cot behind the embalming room, and the future killer later confessed to sleeping in a coffin alongside a deceased teenage boy, per The New Yorker.
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Andrew Nodell, People.com, 9 May 2025
Listen to this article HAVANA — Ten times a day for the past two weeks, Heidy Sánchez has made the same two-block trek from her parents’ home in Havana looking for an internet signal to video call her family and sing her daughter to sleep.
—Andrea Rodriguez, Sun Sentinel, 8 May 2025
This is sometimes known in Spanish as a cama caliente, because the bed is still warm when a night-shift worker comes home in the morning to sleep.
—Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Enter the Hele Box, which might be the perfect solution for the majority of car campers who are looking to sleep in the back of their vehicle without going full van life.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 2 May 2025
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Andrew Nodell, People.com, 9 May 2025
Listen to this article HAVANA — Ten times a day for the past two weeks, Heidy Sánchez has made the same two-block trek from her parents’ home in Havana looking for an internet signal to video call her family and sing her daughter to sleep.
—Andrea Rodriguez, Sun Sentinel, 8 May 2025
This is sometimes known in Spanish as a cama caliente, because the bed is still warm when a night-shift worker comes home in the morning to sleep.
—Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
Enter the Hele Box, which might be the perfect solution for the majority of car campers who are looking to sleep in the back of their vehicle without going full van life.
—Graham Averill, Outside Online, 2 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for to sleep
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“To sleep.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/to%20sleep. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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