SLEPT in a Sentence

Learn SLEPT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
225 example sentences for SLEPT, such as:
1. We slept under the open sky.
2. I slept in and missed my bus.
3. I slept for eight solid hours.
4. We both slept right through the storm.
5. Though he slept soundly, he awoke instantly.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of SLEPT
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1  A heavy warm somnolence lay over the house, as if it slept at ease like the girls, until night when it would burst into its full beauty with music and candle flames.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  In his arms Wade slept contentedly, a cleanly picked wishbone in his small hand.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  For a moment, stiffened by the cramped position in which she had slept, she could not remember where she was.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
4  Carreen and Suellen, emaciated and white, slept brokenly and awoke to mumble with wide, staring eyes in the tall four-poster bed where they had whispered together in better, happier days.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  Somewhere was the world and families who ate and slept safely under their own roofs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
6  He had gradually slipped into the status of a member of the family and slept on a cot in the little dressing room off Gerald's room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  Usually he lay flat on the sofa, during the evenings when he was on guard, and slept and snored so violently that his long beard leaped into the air with each rumbling breath.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
8  She had lived for years with Rhett, slept with him, eaten with him, quarreled with him and borne his child--and yet, she did not know him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
9  And they had fed and clothed any number of waifs who slept in their cellar.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
10  Her hand still clung to Gerty's as if to ward off evil dreams, but the hold of her fingers relaxed, her head sank deeper into its shelter, and Gerty felt that she slept.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
11  It was easier to think without those five figures dancing before her eyes; and she had a great deal of thinking to do before she slept.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13
12  She could not believe that she had ever slept in his arms.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
13  That night she ate prodigiously of steak and fried potatoes; she produced electric sparks by touching his ear with her finger-tip; she slept twelve hours; and awoke to think how glorious was this brave land.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
14  She was glad, in retreat, to scamper ahead of the two men up-stairs to the hall-room in which Hugh slept.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
15  Carol slept three hours next morning, and ran back.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence:
1  We slept under the open sky.
2  We both slept right through the storm.
3  I slept for eight solid hours.
4  The children slept on mattresses on the floor.
5  I slept, and dreamt that life was Beauty, I woke, and found that life was Duty.
6  I slept in and missed my bus.
7  My sister smeared herself with suntan oil and slept by the swimming pool.
8  I hadn't slept for two days, and I felt a complete physical wreck.
9  I'm pretty sure they slept together before they were married.
10  I hardly slept at all and felt pretty awful.
11  The street slept in darkness, aside from the occasional twinkling of lights from two or three windows.
12  Though he slept soundly, he awoke instantly.
13  He threaded his way back to the ferry landing, found nobody at large there, and walked boldly on board the boat, for he knew she was tenantless except that there was a watchman, who always turned in and slept like a graven image.
14  I slept in queer places, and ate odd things, and met strange faces.
15  The dogs, curled in furry balls, slept in the snow.