How to Use go to sleep in a Sentence

go to sleep

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  • Light exposure helps tell the body when to go to sleep and when to wake up.
    Cathy Wong, Verywell Health, 15 Feb. 2023
  • My typical routine on a long plane ride is to settle in and go to sleep.
    Stuart R. Levine, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • So just work until the end of the night and then go to sleep, and then you won't be invited to any parties.
    WIRED, 6 Jan. 2023
  • While trying to go to sleep, simply tap your fingers against certain points on your face and collarbone.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Relax, recharge, unplug, spend time in nature, have fun with family and friends, and go to sleep at a reasonable hour.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • But just because your spring and summer plants are slumbering (or have all gone to seed) doesn't mean your garden has to go to sleep for a long winter’s nap.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 24 Oct. 2022
  • His natural instinct after that was to groom himself and go to sleep — just as van Egmond was getting ready for bed herself.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • From her second-story bedroom window, Judy Steer used to wake up to an elm tree in the morning and go to sleep with it at night.
    Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The families got into the two beds, preparing to go to sleep, women and girls lying lengthwise, boys across the bottom of the bed at their feet.
    Samantha M. Shapiro, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Two weeks before school begins, start moving bedtimes back by about 20 minutes a night until kids go to sleep at a reasonable hour.
    Julie Jargon, WSJ, 30 July 2022
  • He apparently was affected by homeostatic sleep drive, the feeling of pressure to go to sleep.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2022
  • But Thibodeaux, a former Oregon Ducks star, was not backing down or apologizing for doing snow angels next to Foles or putting his hands into a ‘go to sleep’ sign on the sideline.
    oregonlive, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Insofar as its respondents actually wanted to go to sleep earlier, these individuals were thus engaging in bedtime procrastination.
    Janosch Deeg, Scientific American, 19 July 2022

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