slumber

Example Sentences

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Football awoke from its slumber in June 2020, squeezing the end of a season into a couple of months.

From BBC

Natural disasters are inevitable, but often, the most devastating slumber for decades, sometimes centuries, only awakening when provoked.

From Salon

It took all morning to climb the ridge, and all afternoon to scramble down into the next valley, where a silent pine forest guarded a slumbering river.

From Literature

I fell into a slumber so deep Ma couldn’t rouse me that morning.

From Literature

However, if the U.S. bats do not rouse from their slumber, the championship game will be a game the Americans curse forever.

From Los Angeles Times