sleep in

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Recent Examples of sleep in Guests have the option of sleeping in the sparsely furnished but comfortable nuns’ quarters, which start at around 200 dollars per night. Vjosa Isai, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025 The family all sleep in the same room, behind another curtain, on mattresses on the floor. Greg Presto, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025 Their family home had just one room, which meant Appiah slept in the same bed as his mother and older sister. Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2025 Since hair is weakest when wet, sleeping in wet hair can cause hair to become dry and brittle, causing split ends, breakage, and fallout. Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for sleep in 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sleep in
Verb
  • Giles was deceased when she was dropped off at the hospital, while Cabrales-Arzola died eleven days later.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Feb. 2025
  • New details have been released regarding the death of an 8-year-old Borger, Texas, student who was killed while being dropped off at school last week.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 28 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • The photo-happy couple is still sharing snapshots of one another, with the Rhode founder posting a series of Instagram photos on Tuesday that included her musician husband nodding off across from her.
    Taijuan Moorman, USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2025
  • As one mother nodded off, her eyelids heavy, a nurse came in and whisked her baby away.
    Bryant Rousseau, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Verb
  • Last spring, the Today show reported that people were oversleeping due to silent alarms.
    Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 10 Jan. 2025
  • The Season 3 penultimate and finale episodes ‘Getting There’ and ‘Jews on a Plane’ aired on Comedy Central in 2016, the first half featuring the duo in a rush to get to the airport after oversleeping, forgetting a passport and getting stuck in the subway.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2024

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“Sleep in.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sleep%20in. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.

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