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Recent Examples of sleepoverBorn in Australia, Robson and his family moved to Los Angeles after meeting Jackson; during his first sleepover at Neverland Ranch, Robson claimed Jackson performed oral sex on him.—Amelia McDonell-Parry, Rolling Stone, 22 Apr. 2026 In testimony Monday, Woodall described being made to undress in Kiesle’s rectory bedroom during a sleepover as a fifth-grader, before being molested alongside another child as part of a role-playing bedtime story.—Jakob Rodgers, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2026 At a recent sleepover, my 15-year-old son and his 14-year-old friend Charlie, driven by a pang of nostalgia, chose to watch the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics on YouTube.—Luba Kassova, Fortune, 1 Apr. 2026 Johnson took the girls to the Dollar Tree during their sleepover.—Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for sleepover
Prosecutors said Powell was investigated for a similar attack on a 9-year-old boy at the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in 2024 while the boy was on a summer cap field trip, but was never charged.
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Todd Feurer,
CBS News,
6 June 2026
School kids arrived on field trips and groups lined up for exhibitions, taking the escalators up past the abstract artist Julie Mehretu’s vibrant, 83-foot-tall vertical window.
As astronauts have logged more time over multiple stays, rather than wear multiple 100 Days patches, new versions for 200, 300, and 500 days were made.
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Robert Pearlman,
ArsTechnica,
8 June 2026
While often viewed as a last resort, bankruptcy can stop collection efforts, pause lawsuits through an automatic stay and potentially eliminate certain types of debt.
Trump has undergone four medical checkups in 13 months, prompting questions about the frequency of his visits, the types of tests being performed and what doctors are looking for.
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Zac Anderson,
USA Today,
7 June 2026
Naqvi was set to meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi during the visit, semi-official Tasnim News agency reported.
What a Homestay Offers That a Hotel Can’t A homestay — staying as a guest in a local’s home rather than a hotel, hostel or campsite — sits at the intersection of two trends reshaping travel.
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Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
1 June 2026
Unlike a hotel stay, which is largely transactional, a homestay puts travelers inside the daily rhythm of a destination.
As shoppers gear up for their European summer sojourns, brands are beating the tourist rush and setting up shop across the continent with temporary seasonal stores, beach club pop-ups and limited-time activations to capture the attention and dollars of the high-spending set.
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Madeleine Schulz,
Vogue,
8 June 2026
Ernst Baerwald’s odyssey from a cushy childhood in Frankfurt to his final days in a beautiful Berkeley mansion, with a long sojourn in Tokyo along the way, reads like, well, a novel.
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Bethanne Patrick,
Los Angeles Times,
8 June 2026