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How to use the word SLEEP in a Sentence?

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I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep… Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

May Sarton

added by JokerGem
17 days ago

For me, the biggest challenge is the lack of sleep. Not the giving up of food and drink – your body adjusts pretty quickly to that – but the lack of sleep and the interrupted sleep makes it much more challenging.

Mazen Basrawi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Dreams do usually incorporate things that happened during the day, leading some researchers to hypothesize that dreams and rapid eye movement sleep is essential for memory consolidation and cognitive rejuvenation, nightmares are the mind’s attempts at making sense of these events, by replaying them in images during sleep.

Joshua Tal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

People with sleep apnea will report dreams of, like, drowning, suffocating, giant waves, gasping for air, being underwater or being choked.

Alex Dimitriu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

A lot of awkward things happen in the night when people are sleep deprived, drink caffeine too late, drink alcohol too late, worked too late or slept four hours last night because they stayed up too late, the fundamental core and foundation of healthy dream life starts with healthy sleep.

Nirit Soffer-Dudek

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Trail Aaron was there every day for me and, I kid you not, there were nights that I cried Patricia Toro It to sleep with Trail Aaron on the phone, on FaceTime, i hated to Google what the doctors were sending me and so Trail Aaron would Google for me and be like, ‘ Do n’t Google that. ’.

Patricia Toro It

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What I always tell people is, you know, getting about seven hours a night of uninterrupted sleep is associated with the least amount of cardiovascular disease.

Andrew Freeman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Are they under a lot of stress? Are they drinking huge amounts of caffeine and then not sleeping? Maybe they’re not exercising very much, and we know that exercise promotes good quality sleep, it’s hard to tease out all the factors that might contribute.

Andrew Freeman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Signs of poor sleep quality include not feeling rested even after getting enough sleep, repeatedly waking up during the night, and experiencing symptoms of sleep disorders (such as snoring or gasping for air).

The CDC

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming in terror like his passengers.

Bob Monkhouse

added by Normando
1 year ago

I ca n’t sleep at night. I ca n’t sleep. I ca n’t eat. It’s just painful, very painful. I wo n’t wish this on no mother.

Melissa Carter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are mostly angry. We are not afraid. Why would we be? It is our home, i will sleep at my bed. My parents will sleep at their beds. It will be a little bit cold because we don’t have windows but we are not going anywhere.

Kyrylo Chorniy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I will sleep at my bed. My parents will sleep at their beds. It will be a little bit cold because we don’t have windows but we are not going anywhere.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you are complaining about your sleep and not exercising, you better have a good reason for not doing it, from a research perspective, it is far more effective at deepening sleep and improving its quality than any fad tech gadget in existence today … and it’s free!

Chris Winter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s physiologically impossible to not sleep at all, so nature has you covered, control the variables you can control, like schedule, environment, etc., and put it out of your mind.

Chris Winter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Someone who is asleep ‘before their head hits the pillow’ is not a champion sleeper any more than an individual who can eat their entire dinner in three minutes is a highly nutritious eater, that can often be a red flag and not a sign of great sleep.

Chris Winter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We haven’t seen this type of study look at health-related quality of life or quality of life outcomes, which we know are really important because that is often something that really can resonate with families, with teachers, with public health officials, when we’re thinking about how important it is to promote healthy sleep.

Ariel Williamson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If I was working with patients to give them a vaccination, I would inquire whether they’re having problems with sleep and whether they were sleep deprived the night before, if they are, I would ask them to come back when they are fully rested.

Michael Irwin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Safe sleep is hard.

Judy Bannon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I need my phone for an alarm in the morning, and it helps me go to sleep at night, get up and get your iPod and listen to some music and get a regular alarm clock.

Cora Collette Breuner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Devices should be off and charging away from the bed, whether it’s in the kitchen or another room besides the bedroom, we don’t secrete melatonin to help us sleep when we’re staring at light.

Cora Collette Breuner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We don’t secrete melatonin to help us sleep when we’re staring at light.

Cora Collette Breuner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s never too late to start, sleep is very individualized, and every child will respond differently to the time change. Make sure you as the parent are getting the rest you need as well, so you’re not overly irritable with your child.

Raj Dasgupta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Laying in bed rn still trying to figure out if I should go back to sleep or go to school.

The Blonde Jon

added by TheBlondeJon
1 year ago

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