How to Use to sleep in a Sentence

to sleep

phrase
  • They were forced to sleep on the bare floor.
    Cathie Anderson, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Liquori hasn’t been able to sleep since the crash.
    Elizabeth Chuck, NBC news, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Make sure pets have a warm and dry space to sleep.
    Amanda McCoy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Does Arj have a place to sleep that night?
    Beandrea July, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
  • What kid wouldn’t love to sleep in a castle?
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Jan. 2026
  • My wife loves to sleep with a pillow over her head.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Staff will need to sleep on cots in the meantime.
    Steven Rosenbaum, CBS News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Try to go to sleep and wake up at the same time every day.
    Ashley Olivine, Verywell Health, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Her hosts, rock climbers who knew her habits, had lent her a van to sleep in.
    D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Some folks like to sleep in until the alarm goes off a few times.
    Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2025
  • The thought alone of settling in for a three hour flick might put you to sleep.
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 31 July 2023
  • Once out of the bag, a quick shake fluffed up the down, which was a dream to sleep on.
    Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 4 Nov. 2024
  • No one needs to sleep upright or eat skyr to feel better.
    Marisa McMillan, Outside, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Who the hell wants to sleep with these people watching?
    Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Are there things people can do now to sleep better?
    Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Sometimes looking for a warm place to sleep.
    Paul Greenberg, Time, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Zahra sometimes curled up around an object to sleep.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Martinez went home that night but was unable to sleep.
    Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
  • If we were told when to lie down, when to be still, when to eat and drink, when to sleep.
    Hazlitt, 7 Jan. 2026
  • For growing kids, a mattress is more than just a place to sleep.
    ABC News, 7 July 2026
  • Webster drifted off to sleep, full of hope.
    Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
  • But that required him to sleep upright.
    Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • There’s no time to sleep in recruiting.
    Grace Raynor, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Some were helping out in exchange for a couch to sleep on from time to time.
    Kat McGowan, NPR, 29 May 2024
  • She was too wired to sleep and too scared to eat, afraid of being poisoned.
    J Wortham January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 2 May 2024
  • Halfway to sleep but still talking.
    Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
  • My children cried themselves to sleep.
    Stephanie Nolasco, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Maassen, 51 at the time, spent most days in bed but struggled to sleep.
    Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 21 July 2026
  • Easy to sleep on, good for tracking wildlife, and open enough to let the breeze keep bugs at bay.
    John Todd, Outdoor Life, 9 July 2026
  • Try to stick to a schedule to go to sleep and wake up at the same time every day.
    Amber J. Tresca, Verywell Health, 21 Mar. 2025

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