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• He was a heavy sleeper, a heavy eater and a heavy smoker – certainly not an ideal husband.From the entry heavy
• For example, sleeping and waking are contraries, and snoring is associated with sleepers.2004, Boethius, translated by Eleonore Stump, In Ciceronis Topica. From the entry incompatible
• I am not, I regret to say, a discreet and fetching sleeper.2000, Bill Bryson, chapter 1, in In a Sunburned Country, page 11. From the entry fetching
• In addition, there are two well-patronised sleeper trains in each direction.1959 November, J. N. Westwood, “The Railways of Canada”, in Trains Illustrated, page 554. From the entry patronised
• For the sleeper on the couch was not Akeley at all, but my quondam guide Noyes.1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 8, in The Whisperer in Darkness. From the entry quondam
• The sleeper squarer manufactured by Permaquip is used to push sleepers back into their correct alignment, using hydraulic rams.2026 July 8, “RAIL Live 2026 exhibits”, in RAIL, number 1065, page 54. From the entry squarer
• “Not to get into it, but I’m not a great sleeper,” he says, reaching out of frame for his coffee.2025 September 12, Ryan Gilbey, “‘Hollywood has everything to do with the terrible state of the world’: Charlie Kaufman on AI, Eternal…. From the entry shut-eye
• I decided to start with a super sleeper list.2024 April 24, Jake Ellenbogen, “50 Super Sleepers for the Rams in this year's NFL Draft”, in Turf Show Times. From the entry super-sleeper
• But as it wasn't clear, they walked on the sleepers, each carrying a 70lb lifting screw on his shoulder.2022 August 10, Dr Mike Esbester, “New understandings from old incidents”, in RAIL, number 963, page 58. From the entry cess
• The low-key all-iron look makes this super sleeper the perfect choice for a traditional-style street rod or street machine.2014, John Baechtel, Chevy Big-Block Engine Parts Interchange, page 22. From the entry super-sleeper
• A pudgy man pretending to be a child, sloppily dressed in sleepers, he talks back to his unseen parents, fighting to stay up late.1970 December 6, Mel Gussow, “Children’s Theater Found Better Suited for Parents”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry sleepers
• Mostly it's but like a sleeper turning over in his bed, — suddenly it takes a deeper meaning, filling me with dread.1952, Rainer Maria Rilke, From the remains of Count C.W.. From the entry feelsome
• Broad-gauge track consists of both bullhead and flat-bottom rails, carried on a variety of sleepers—treated soft wood, hard wood, steel trough—and cast-iron pots and plates.1950 February, W. Dendy, “Impressions of the Indian Railways—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 120. From the entry broad-gauge
• The track was further weakened by the too wide spacing of the sleepers, most of which "were in the last stage of rottenness."1946 July and August, “The Royston Accident, G.N.R., July 3, 1866”, in Railway Magazine, pages 216, 219. From the entry rottenness
• In the event of a sleeper consignment, the auctioneer is often not fraudulently misrepresenting the property, as he generally has no intention to erroneously underattribute and undersell the lot.2016, Anne Laure Bandle, The Sale of Misattributed Artworks and Antiques at Auction, page 194. From the entry underattribute
• A match-three game built into a very basic RPG framework, Infinite Interactive's title was a sleeper hit, sucking people in before they'd realized they were even in danger.2010, “Puzzle Quest”, in 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, page 741. From the entry match-three game
• The demonstration that the short sleeper phenotype can be reverted in these lines by transposon jumping indicates that a single gene is likely to be involved.2004, Pierre-Hervé Luppi, Sleep: Circuits and Functions, →ISBN, page 158. From the entry short sleeper
• As we strolled along admiring the many-masted vessels, an old man, an early riser and doubtless a poor sleeper (as so many old people are) stopped us.1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXXI, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 186. From the entry early riser
• In these species the eggs are defended most strongly, and feeding territories have also been reported for some of them (the dark sleeper and the common freshwater goby).1980, Jiro Kikkawa, Comparative Ecology, translation of original by Yoshiaki Ito, →ISBN, page 218. From the entry dark sleeper
• It did not need Driver Thornhill's revelations of winter snows to identify the purpose of rows of discarded sleepers flanking the alignment picket-wise in single and occasionally double formation.1949 March and April, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–2”, in Railway Magazine, page 82. From the entry snow fence
• West's friends were so appalled by the nature of his death that they arranged for a wooden memorial in the churchyard of St Laurence's, constructed aptly from a railway sleeper.2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56. From the entry appalled

Meaning of sleeper

1. noun Someone who sleeps.
2. noun That which lies dormant, as a law.
3. noun A spy, saboteur, or terrorist who lives unobtrusively in a community until activated by a prearranged signal; may be part of a sleeper cell.

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Questions about sleeper in a sentence

How do you use sleeper in a sentence?

Sleeper is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I'm a light sleeper: I get woken up by the smallest of sounds.”

What is a short sentence with sleeper?

“I decided to start with a super sleeper list.”

What does sleeper mean?

Sleeper means someone who sleeps.