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Junior sailors sleep in tiny bunks, known as racks, with little privacy or personal space.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

Trust founder Sue Sayers said seals resting on beaches were regularly being disturbed by people, causing stress, injury and sleep deprivation.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

“When I’m going to sleep, all I do is look at real estate in New Zealand and have a dream of my house when I’m going off to sleep,” she added.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

Conversely, consider general anesthetics: When patients have their interoception shut down, they are also put to sleep.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

The fumes quickly put surgical patients to sleep, but this ether also had a tendency to stop their breathing completely.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman

State courts have repeatedly ruled that there is no single way to determine where someone lives, and judges must consider multiple factors, such as where a voter sleeps or stores personal belongings.

From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026

He sleeps more easily now, but sometimes the harrowing moments he experienced underground wake him.

From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026

“Don’t desert us,” said Dwight Gaines, 65, who usually sleeps in an encampment across from the now-shuttered post office on 7th Street.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

“Now I can look forward to ruining my sleep schedule, chugging iced Americanos, and screaming at the TV at 3 a.m. for a country I don’t live in while our national team sleeps peacefully.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

He’d been odd for sleeps and sleeps, and she hated it.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

Matson traces its roots to one night three years ago when, he claims, a pit bull dug under his fence and killed an ostrich as she slept.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026

Srishti Agrawal, whose aunt and cousin from New York are among the missing, said family members haven’t slept in days trying to track them down.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

I have always slept better in apartment buildings than in silent houses, soothed by footsteps overhead and doors closing somewhere down the hall.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

Unable to afford a bed frame, he says he slept on a mattress on the floor of his council flat and felt a deep sense of abandonment and isolation.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

The dogs are still fresh, having slept a full day, and they don’t care that there is no snow for the sled runners—it’s all the same to them—and I have to run them.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

The vessels’ passageways and sleeping quarters are narrow and claustrophobic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

The pair grew close: sharing meals, playing sports and even sleeping at Dandia's home.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

Sleep scores, magnesium, white noise machines - what was once the simple act of sleeping has become a minefield.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

“You’re sleeping in a coffin for nine months. That would drive me crazy.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

“For weeks now, I have not been sleeping at nights, and do you know why this is, Elizabeth?” she said.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo