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slumbering

adjective as in quiescent

adjective as in sleeping

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Example Sentences

“I am sorry, Phillip. You promised to release me from my service if I healed this...creature,” she said, pointing at the slumbering wolf.

I fear that the warping or destruction of institutions and key government agencies will startle slumbering domestic and international investors awake, causing them to reallocate assets to cheaper, and safer, global markets.

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He has fallen in the same line as those brave souls before him who chose to sacrifice themselves in order to wake up a slumbering, complicit people.

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Simple death by exposure would have left peaceful bodies that looked as if they were slumbering, as a veterinarian consultant observes in an earlier episode.

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He called for his “afflicted, degraded and slumbering brethren” to cast off their chains.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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