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How to use the word sleeping in a Sentence? Page #9

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It was Reem, the way she looks sleeping on my shoulder. Her face. She seems so innocent.

Abdul Halim al-Attar

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I haven't slept since Tuesday, because there was no electricity and I've been sleeping in my truck. I'm heading to Denny's for dinner, that's the big excitement.

Tony Bellis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They were together about an hour or two holding hands and sleeping, i was crying, and all other nurses were crying. It was like a real-life ‘The Notebook.’.

Cheyenne Marion

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Thank you, friends, for everything you're doing. Thank you Phil Burress, the sleeping giant is stirring.

Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I live with my grandparents in a blue house in Shishmaref, and that is almost on the edge of the island, whenever there's a storm and big waves, we hear that when we're sleeping.

Esau Sinnok

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Everyone thought this was a sleeping cell.

Samia Maktouf

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

If you're lucky enough to have an office, shut the door and just don't tell anyone you're napping! i can't tell you how many executives have shown me their sleeping bags under their desks.

Rebecca Robbins

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We have made a limited number of prototypes to test on different users and taking it back from someone after a week or two of sleeping is not an easy task.

Behrouz Hariri

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When I was Michael Cimarusti, at Water Grill and Spago, I was in the process of becoming increasingly aware of these things, but now, I mean you have to be sleeping under a rock not to know that when some food blogger in Tokyo posts photos and writes about the delights of eating Pacific bluefin tuna -- which is down to 4 % of its historic biomass -- that person is not doing the world any favors.

Michael Cimarusti

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It was very dramatic to see a baby's T-shirt on the street because you know what's going on in the island, you see people that are sleeping on the streets. That was when I understood how bad things are.

Anna Pantelia

Found on CNN
8 years ago

As winter looms, the sight of thousands of refugees sleeping rough as they make their way through Europe represents a damning indictment of the European Union's failure to offer a coordinated response to the refugee crisis.

John Dalhuisen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Donald Trump falls to second place behind Ben Carson, we informed Ben, but he was sleeping.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We and several other centers have begun to make this our routine practice as of this year, as for sleep deprivation, there are alarms and devices that make constant noise which makes sleeping difficult for even a healthy person.

Martin Makary

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is a very conservative area, the ACLU picked the wrong sleeping giant this time.

State Rep. Mike Johnson

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

My son is innocent. He has been falsely implicated, he was sick and sleeping when mobs gathered around after the temple announcement.

Ombir Sisodia

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He was sick and sleeping when mobs gathered around after the temple announcement.

Ombir Sisodia

Found on CNN
8 years ago

That night, I couldn't sleep thinking about refugee families in the Bekaa sleeping in their tents, how were they able to beat the winter cold?

Barbara Abdeni Massaad

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I was to drive my Jeep and bring my cell phone, GPS, clothes, a gun, tents, sleeping bags, hatchet, fishing poles, and money from a package I never picked up, after I picked them up, the plan was to drive to my home and Inmate Matt was going to kill 'the glitch.' Inmate Matt referred to Lyle as 'the glitch.' After Inmate Matt killed Lyle, we were going to drive somewhere. I can't remember where we were going to go, but I know I was told it was around six-seven hours away.

Lyle Mitchell

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Nobody is going to just go home and start sleeping -- they are awake. And they are trying to build on what the government did, and what the protests have accomplished.

Koichi Nakano

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I would have trouble sleeping at night if I was keeping L.A. from getting cameras.

Steve Soboroff

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Once you've paid back your deficiency, you can't really oversleep, you can be in bed for 14 hours but you're only really sleeping for eight hours.

Charles Czeisler

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If a woman is having vaginal problems, discharge, or pain then often sleeping commando is encouraged.

Melissa Goist

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

In terms of water, in terms of sanitation, in terms of food assistance, it's totally inadequate. On most of the islands, there is no reception capacity, people are not sleeping under any form of roof, so it's total chaos on the islands. After a couple of days they are transferred to Athens, there is nothing waiting for them in Athens.

Vincent Cochetel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The doctors are not sleeping. They are working day and night and are certainly short on surgeons and nurses, at the time( of my visit), the hospital was on the front line -- you could be shot through the window, you can hear the tanks firing and the bullets zinging by.

Photographer Guillaume Binet

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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