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How to use slumber in a sentence

28 example sentences · noun, verb

Slumber means a very light state of sleep, almost awake. Example: “The slumbering giant that was China has finally awoken.”

Examples of slumber by meaning

nounA state of ignorance or inaction.

  • Marcel Duchamp's urinal and readymades seemed in the beginning to be insider jokes or jokelike paradoxes meant to awaken people from their aesthetic slumbers.2009, Ben-Ami Scharfstein, Art without borders: a philosophical exploration of art and humanity

More sentences with slumber

  • The slumbering giant that was China has finally awoken.From the entry slumbering
  • He grunted and murmured, until his face calmed, the eyelids smoothing into slumber, the brows unfurrowing.2009 June 28, David Gates, “The Postmodern Me”, in New York Times. From the entry unfurrow
  • Sophie had one quick feed for the road and slipped into milk-drunk slumber.2001, Rozella Floranz Kennedy, BecomingMom.com, Writer's Showcase, page 405. From the entry milk-drunk
  • D'ye hear?" He shook him roughly by the shoulder, but the boy still slumbered on.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry foxing
  • Finally I gave him a draught, and he sank into uneasy slumber.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 35”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC. From the entry draught
  • Marys-on-the-Wye, its outcourt and surrounding buildings, slept in dreamy, peaceful slumber.1912, William Richard Harris, Pioneers of the Cross in Canada, page 131. From the entry outcourt
  • Stealthily, so soon as the house slumbered, she packed her small outfit, embedding therein the precious gift.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry manumission
  • Magritte offers us ontological shock treatments to jar us out of our metaphysical slumbers, but proposes no satisfying alternative.2025 November 2 (last accessed), “Let’s Get Real! Magritte and the Nature of Reality”, in baptistcenter.com, archived from the original on…. From the entry metaphysical
  • Nox Ap, the bee mother, awakens from her winter slumber along the realm of Xsan, the River of Mists.2024, Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson, The Bee Mother. From the entry bee mother
  • And when the sun rose, it was upon the white sails of the dahabiyeh, the vacant pyramid, and the slumbering Sphinx.2019 December 10, Bret Harte, Condensed Novels: New Burlesques, Good Press. From the entry dahabieh
  • The following is a guide to biohacking your brain and body into sweeter slumbers, from moonlit rituals to bedside staples.2018, Almila Kakinc-Dodd, “Hacking Sleep”, in The Thirlby: A Field Guide to a Bibrant Mind, Body, & Soul, Munich: Prestel Verlag, →ISBN…. From the entry biohack
  • Or did slumber forsake thee a nightertale last?'2011, Arthur D Bardswell, The Poor Preachers: The Adventures of the First Lollards, WestBow Press, →ISBN, page 288. From the entry nightertale
  • I turned thirteen the week after school got out (and had a slumber party that even Fiona called “oh-so funtastic”).2009, Sydney Salter, Jungle Crossing, Harcourt, →ISBN, pages 16–17. From the entry funtastic
  • A favorite pair of worn-torn pajamies to slumber around the house in when we take a sick day from work.2001 July 3, LyndaNP, quoting an article, “Creature Comforts Heal Us 7/3/01”, in alt.support.depression.manic (Usenet), archived from the…. From the entry pajamies
  • Thus was the Commission, caught in vast inscrutables, uneasily observing a hydra-headed giant, forestretched, abysmally yawning, in disturbed slumber.1961, Peter Decker, Benedict Arnold: Son of the Havens - Page 145. From the entry forestretch
  • And it was strange that these two archwitches should slumber when the whole world of shadows was astir.1907, William McChesney Martin, Shoes of Iron: A Tale of Witch Town, Mayhew Publishing Co., page 183. From the entry archwitch
  • "Olivia and I go way back." Back to Girl Scouts and slumber parties and double-dog dares and pinky promises made beneath the stars.2022, Alexandria Bellefleur, chapter 1, in Count Your Lucky Stars, New York, N.Y.: Avon, →ISBN. From the entry double dog dare
  • To ride upon such glories, Till my time comes nigh, And commune in the city of peaceful slumbers Among my brothers of wind-blown rye.2016, William Burkholder, The City of My Brothers. From the entry brother
  • He claims that the pendulums can have a hypnotic effect on the sun god and cause him to sink into a long slumber.2014, Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem, Tor Books, →ISBN. From the entry sun god
  • Reggie woke her from a frightless slumber years ago with a tarantula in a shoebox, disappointed when it didn't make her scream.2001, Stephen Beachy, Distortion. From the entry frightless
  • And the Mediterranean world, meeting ground of diverse civilizations from Asia, Africa, and Europe, slumbered uneasily during the final hours of the (baptized) Pax Romana.1989, Anne Buttimer, The wake of Erasmus: saints, scholars, and studia in mediaeval Norden, page 4. From the entry Middle Ocean
  • Certainly the hayhennies and crowing roosters (at all times of nights) and the breathlessness of the “air” don't encourage one to slumbers.1926, Hart Crane, letter, 30 July. From the entry hayhenny
  • About one o’clock in the morning there was a terrific impact that threw the slumbering guests and crew from berth and bunk.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 115. From the entry wrack
  • However, I suffer the loss of slumber with waking dreams of what I am to become, a sleepwalker, living a nightmare, and that's the way it goes .2017, David Goff, A Sleepwalker's Guide. From the entry sleepwalker
  • To the casual observer, the town of Kuanshan in eastern Taiwan appears to be in a perpetual state of slumber, much like many other small towns along Highway 9.2002 November 1, “Cycling into the East”, in Taiwan Today, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2022. From the entry Kuanshan
  • And as to the slumber of infants, it is no guess of mine that to sleep like a baby is not always to lie quiet and unlachrymose all night.1944, Franklin Pierce Adams, Nods and Becks, Whittlesey House, page 126. From the entry unlachrymose
  • So, with a sigh, because novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, page 79. From the entry anodyne

Meaning of slumber

  1. noun A very light state of sleep, almost awake.
  2. noun A very heavy state of sleep.
  3. noun A state of ignorance or inaction.

Full definition of slumber

Questions about slumber in a sentence

How do you use slumber in a sentence?
Slumber is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The slumbering giant that was China has finally awoken.”
What is a short sentence with slumber?
“Or did slumber forsake thee a nightertale last?'”
What does slumber mean?
Slumber means a very light state of sleep, almost awake.

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