sleeping with

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Fellow Times staff writer Kevin Baxter reported in 2007 that Beltre Beltronce insisted on sleeping with a bat for protection after he had a brush with a ghost” at the hotel.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 2025

For the more radical elements of his party, this might have been seen as sleeping with the enemy.

From BBC • Oct. 12, 2024

And he advocated sleeping with an eye mask, adding: "Sunlight is your biggest enemy."

From BBC • Jul. 30, 2024

He apparently vacillates between moments of sleeping with his mouth open in a sign of utter disinterest and being jolted to stare menacingly at witnesses, the judge and other people in the courtroom.

From Salon • Apr. 29, 2024

“Or you’ll be sleeping with an empty belly, and I’ll not feel a shred of guilt.”

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir