sleeping with
Example Sentences
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"It's like sleeping with your ears open all the time, you're just waiting on something to happen."
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
“You can’t do that if you’re in an environment that causes chaos and stress — or you can’t sleep, you’re having confrontations, you’re irritable because you’re sleeping with one eye open.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2025
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
Enjoying cartoons, playing games where you sometimes pretend to be an animal and sleeping with your "stuffie" are nearly universal interests for the playground set.
From Salon • May 12, 2025
He knew this from the relief he felt from sleeping with the window open, of no longer fearing the yellow cat.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
