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How to use the word Slept in a Sentence? Page #4

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The art works cover the period of the Cold War, everything that this bunker slept through during its long isolation.

Edo Hozic

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I raced here after the earthquake. I haven't slept for days.

Narayan Gurung going

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If it makes you feel any better, he did sleep with one of my ex-girlfriends – but she was my current girlfriend at the time, wait, he slept with your girlfriend while you were together?

Scott Eastwood

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

On stage, I talk about my boyfriend, and the two guys I dated, and my one and only one-night stand, and it sounds like 'This girl is a real Dumpster,' but really, over two years I slept with four people.

Their Underwear

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I remember the reaction of the birds. They go to sleep. The hen, they go in to hen house, under the perch, and slept there with the head under the wing.

Finnur Johansen

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I am disappointed to make bogey on the last, but... you're always happy when you're under par - and the more under par you are, the happier you are, i have the flu, and I'm very bunged up and slept terribly last night, but apart from that I'm fine.

Thailand Miguel Jimenez

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Some will fight back. Some will sit down and wait to be arrested, the government is ridiculous. Over 100,000 people came here and slept on the street ... and this government did nothing.

Johnny Chung

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

That was trying to change people's perceptions -- but it was solely driven by retailers trying to sell more beds, not from the premise of improving the way people slept. That was really the end of my road.

Nick Littlehales

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Many people, among them the Frank girls, slept leaning against their mother or father; everyone was dead tired. And then the tension: what would happen next? Perhaps the train would crash? There might be a bombardment; we were hoping for that. (...) A lot of people slept. It was simply a death train. People died [while] underway, and there were many dead when we arrived. I believe that we were in those cattle cars for two days and nights. After the war someone asked me: "Didn't you get anything to eat?" No, we didn't get anything, absolutely nothing.

Lenie de Jong-van Naarden

added by anonymous
9 years ago

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.I awoke -- and found that life was duty.

Ellen Stugis Hooper

added by anonymous
14 years ago

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

Woody Allen

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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14 years ago

I have not slept one wink.

William Shakespeare

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14 years ago

The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept.

William Shakespeare

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14 years ago

The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.

Winston Churchill

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14 years ago

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. 'I reckon,' he asid, with a twinkle in his eye, 'It's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.'

Dorothea Kent

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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