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eternal sleep
noun as in final rest
Example Sentences
The shaken Arthur, seeking death, is greeted by a group of heavenly maidens who offer to take him away — not to death, but to eternal sleep.
“Come to me, little mouse. Let me wrap myself around you. I will give you the kiss of eternal sleep.”
A Utah woman who was arrested earlier this week for allegedly giving her a boyfriend a spoonful of drain cleaner told police she wanted him to “go into eternal sleep.”
After witnessing a lifetime of such gulping — compressed into 100 dense minutes of stage time — you can’t help feeling that the eternal sleep of death must come as a relief to our worn-out, word-stuffed heroine.
Second, killing the murderer is too easy on the criminal, as he or she simply gets to go to eternal sleep.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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