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Recent Examples of copulateHe was groped over and under his clothes, forced to fondle and orally copulate the perpetrators and repeatedly raped.—Jeff McDonald, Mercury News, 12 May 2025 Religious leaders specified days on which, for medical or liturgical reasons, married couples were not to copulate—one Irish rule book from the early seventh century excluded a good two-thirds of the year.—S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2025 Once the toxin took effect, males mounted the females and copulated for between 40 and 75 minutes, without the risk of being gobbled up.—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2025 On his shirt, little hippos copulated against a pastel-blue cotton background.—airmail.news, 7 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for copulate
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sleep
Verb
Like, be with my family every night, sleep at home every night.
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Pamela Avila,
USA Today,
22 Sep. 2025
In law—if not yet in fact, as the Union Army had only begun its work of sweeping the South clean—some three million souls who had gone to sleep enslaved the day before would wake up the next day as free men, women, and children.
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