Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
sleeps
IPA transcription: [sl'ips]
Usage examples
He sleeps.
'Well!' said the Princess, 'if it sleeps here, I'm sure I won't.'
She sleeps and lets all her nerves and muscles rest; only her gills and fins keep working mechanically.
This child sleeps in the same apartment with its master and mistress, which adds to the difficulty of removal.
Sallie Page sleeps on the top floor where the janitor's family lives, and he, of course, sleeps up there also."
They say that Stonewall Jackson never sleeps, and they make no mistake, when they call his infantry foot cavalry!"
The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs.
True, he lives in a real world, breathes real air, eats real food, and sleeps under real blankets, in order to keep real cold away.
"In very cold weather he sleeps, but if he happens to be living where the weather does not get very cold, he is active all the year around.
They hold that castle, and round it there is an orchard with apples in it, and whoever eats those apples sleeps for three days and three nights.