slumber

We believe that Europe can awaken from its long slumber and rekindle the fire that was lit here millennia ago.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Then Ryan Christie scored and it stirred, only to fall into a slumber again.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

The S&P 500 index is showing signs of coming out of its recent slumber, and most of the signals coming out of the options market are saying a big rally may be imminent.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

Perhaps he pictured a shared meal, clinking glasses and maybe a nostalgic movie on the sofa before comfortably sinking into slumber and loud farting.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

At the Battle of White Oak Swamp, his lieutenants found it all but impossible to rouse him and lifted him, insensible, on to his horse, where he continued to slumber while shells exploded around him.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

Sunderland woke from their first-half slumbers, detected the growing anxiety around the stadium, and a sense of inevitability accompanied a thunderous 80th-minute equaliser from Brian Brobbey.

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026

As the sun still slumbers early Monday, patches of dense fog are cloaking parts of Puget Sound and the southwest interior, including areas in and around Tacoma, Bellevue, Seattle and Bremerton.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 16, 2023

The new Man in Black is actually a host version of William controlled by Charlotte, while the genuine article slumbers in cryosleep.

From Salon ● Jul. 11, 2022

Ghosts of an ailing industry surround Gravitricity’s test site: A supply vessel serving North Sea oil rigs slumbers nearby.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 22, 2021

On a Saturday morning in late 1949, he called an urgent staff meeting to outline the concept, unnerving not a few staff members roused from their slumbers by the unexpected weekend alert.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

Hundreds of older people slumbered on thin mats on the hard lobby floor at a community centre in Uki city.

From Barron's ● Jul. 30, 2026

Parts of him that had long slumbered were waking up.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2025

Before Page Dickey and Francis Bosco Schell spent a single night in their house in northwestern Connecticut, clay pots of flower bulbs slumbered there, setting down roots in a space of their own.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

Scientists say they’re closer to an answer, thanks to an unusual study that used an electronic glove to guide people’s dreams while they slumbered.

From Science Magazine ● May 15, 2023

The bookshelves with their neatly ordered manuscripts slumbered in the shadows, while overhead pale moonlight wafted through the stained glass windows, lighting on the bronze statues of past Librarians standing vigil over the galleries.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

Treasury debt is a slumbering giant that is starting to stir.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

"The border with Lithuania is in 30 minutes," the assistant shouted to rouse slumbering passengers.

From Barron's ● Oct. 29, 2025

“A Minecraft Movie” injected some much-needed life into the slumbering box office with a record-breaking $157-million domestic opening and $144 million overseas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2025

If there is indeed a slumbering mass of Americans who believe in real “we the people” democracy, they need to wake up. immediately.

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2025

And, mercy of all mercies, there was a range, slumbering but alight, and above it a rack of warming towels, hanging there to dry after having been washed.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman