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How to use the word sleeping in a Sentence?

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No problem. I wasn’t there and if I was. I was sleeping.

Marylise du Pantalon

added by Gawiza
6 months ago

Sleeping Beauty, when she came out, she did n’t live another 300 years.

Teymuras Kurzchalia

Found on New York Times
9 months ago

By practicing a rewrite during the daytime, you increase your chances of having them at night while you’re sleeping instead of your nightmare.

Joshua Tal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

One of the most effective ways to treat nightmare problems in adults is actually to get them sleeping more soundly( so) they wake up less often.

Jennifer Martin

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

The very deep feeling that you are part of something bigger than yourself, that (you’re) allowed to sacrifice anything that is needed, whether it’s your career, health, seriously mental health, we all have a mission, you’re willing to do it at any cost. You’re very determined, you know that you are on the right side, you’re carrying the torch of light. That keeps us being highly motivated despite the fact that we’re not sleeping for days.

Yiftach Golov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Stop sleeping on yourself.

Branden Condy

added by BrandenCondy
1 year ago

Even from a young age, if people can develop these good sleep habits of getting enough sleep, making sure they are sleeping without too many distractions and have good sleep hygiene overall, it can greatly benefit their overall long-term health, just like we like to say, ‘it’s never too late to exercise or stop smoking,’ it’s also never too early. And we should be talking about and assessing sleep more often.

Frank Qian

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was sleeping pretty soundly, and I woke up with the feeling that I would surely be landing in JFK soon.

Bryan Gottlieb

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The bright light of a TV, computer or smartphone can affect your sleep patterns and keep you alert when you should be getting sleepy, sleeping is something you’ve done your whole life, but the older you get, the harder it can get to fall sleep, so practice good sleep hygiene.

Raj Dasgupta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Also, one of the best ways to help yourself fall asleep is focusing on breathing. Most breathing exercises for sleeping usually involves slow and deep breaths.

Raj Dasgupta

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I always say to wash your gear based on how often you’re using it, if you’re camping every weekend in the summer, I would recommend washing your sleeping bag at least once in the middle of the season and then definitely at the end of the season before you store it for the winter.

Nikwax McLean

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The main thing to look out for is keeping body oils off of the external fabric on a down jacket or sleeping bag because that will wreak havoc on the feathers themselves, when you start seeing oil stains, if the fabric feels greasy or if you start to feel big clumps of down in the jacket or sleeping bag baffles, that’s a sign that you should definitely do something quick.

Haley Huggins

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Down-specific gear like jackets and sleeping bags require machine drying, no amount of air drying will get those down clumps to break apart.

Nikwax McLean

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Survivors (are) sleeping on the streets in freezing cold.

Mostafa Edo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When I actually started looking into CTE – all of the work that they’ve done with the footballers in America, she had every single symptom and more, it was quite obvious to me that there was a definite link in her starting to get into dark places and feeling bad and anxious and not sleeping properly. All of those symptoms … Every one that’s involved in CTE was part of Ellie’s life.

Tony Soutter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We do have a small mouse problem, it’s a problem depending on how you look at it. I kind of let them rock, i appreciate that they at night while we’re sleeping, they come up and clean up the crumbs that my son drops on the floor, so yeah, I’m not going to evict the mice any time soon.

Julia Fox

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is a sleeping giant in America, poor and low-wealth folks now make up 30% of the electorate in every state and over 40% of the electorate in every state where the margin of victory for the presidency was less than 3%. If you could just get that many poor and low-wealth people to vote, they could fundamentally shift every election in the country.

William Barber

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s so great to be able to be sleeping again starting at midnight, it’s great to be able to be up early and be more productive with the sun.

New York

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There was a lot to do that I felt like I could put a pause button on my location. I’ll probably be sleeping in my office the first couple of months until I get better oriented with the city.

De La Cruz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re talking about people who are fleeing great harm, they've fled great harm and they are seeking refuge. And talk about pol theater, playing games with people's lives. There are mothers with sleeping babies getting off those buses.

Kamala Harris

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Physical activity is just absolutely magnificent, and when if you blend that with eating a more plant-based diet, de-stressing, sleeping enough and connecting with others -- that's your magic recipe. It's the fountain of youth, if you will.

Andrew Freeman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When they started shelling us, then in general life changed. I live in the basement, we go there for the night. We have been sleeping there for a month now, i don't think the enemy should be underestimated.

Oksana Miraevska

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We'll start sleeping better in a month, see whether it does well in animals, and we'll feel we made the right decision when we boost a bunch of people with the BA.4 / BA.5 variants.

Larry Corey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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