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99 example sentences for SLUMBER, such as:
1. This brief slumber was profound.
2. The baby slumbered in his cradle.
3. His slumber was complete and conscientious.
4. He is calm as a child in dreamless slumber.
5. She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her age.
2. The baby slumbered in his cradle.
3. His slumber was complete and conscientious.
4. He is calm as a child in dreamless slumber.
5. She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her age.
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Meanings and Examples of SLUMBER
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slumber
n. a dormant or quiescent state
n. a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
Classic Sentence: (96 in 7 pages)
1 This brief slumber was profound.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO...
2 It seemed to be a sort of rite with him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens.
3 The moral world has no grander spectacle than this: a troubled and uneasy conscience, which has arrived on the brink of an evil action, contemplating the slumber of the just.
4 That slumber in that isolation, and with a neighbor like himself, had about it something sublime, of which he was vaguely but imperiously conscious.
5 She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her age.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
Context Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
6 Sister Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this slumber to go and prepare a new potion of chinchona.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HA...
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HA...
7 His slumber was complete and conscientious.
8 The sun was shining brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits ideas to go and come in the brain.
9 His was the overwhelming slumber of the torpid bear and the satiated leech.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
10 The sort of halt which the tumult underwent in the presence of Enjolras was a shock to this heavy slumber.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
11 This good, old quarter, terrified at the Revolution, takes refuge in slumber, as children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily under their coverlet.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE
12 God doubtless neither heard nor saw me, and I sank upon the floor a prey to a slumber which resembled death.
13 This repulsive pillow was her especial property, being used as a weapon of defense, a barricade, or a stern preventive of too much slumber.
14 Furthermore she went to the house of Ulysses, and threw the suitors into a deep slumber.
15 Like a lioness caught in the toils with huntsmen hemming her in on every side she thought and thought till she sank into a slumber, and lay on her bed bereft of thought and motion.
Example Sentence:
1 He is calm as a child in dreamless slumber.
2 It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.
3 The baby slumbered in his cradle.