Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: sleeper
IPA transcription: [sl'ipɚ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: sleeper, slumberer
    Meaning: a rester who is sleeping
Usage examples
  • The other policeman stooped and looked at something crumpled and crisp in the hand of the sleeper.
  • He pointed to a long, heavy sapling which had been fetched in for a sleeper or something of that sort.
  • And they had spoken of the Sleeper; it had not really struck him vividly at the time that he was the Sleeper.
  • As they crossed the gallery he heard a whisper from below, "The Sleeper," and was aware of a turning of heads, a hum of observation.
  • Above the central plaza it stopped, slowly settling Marsward. Within a hundred yards of the ground it came to rest, floating gently in the light air, and at the same instant an alarm sounded at the sleeper's ear.
  • Peering cautiously between the curtains, he saw, at the forward end of the sleeper, a masked man with a revolver in each hand, while the mirror behind him revealed another figure at the rear, masked and armed in like manner.
  • Taken by an adult this powder would insure several hours of heavy slumber without danger to the sleeper. This he handed to Chunk McGowan, telling him to administer it in a liquid if possible, and received the hearty thanks of the backyard Lochinvar.
  • At first, doubting that I was really awake, I entered into a series of tests, which soon convinced me that I really was. Now, when one dreams, and, in the dream, suspects that he dreams, the suspicion never fails to confirm itself, and the sleeper is almost immediately aroused.