Slumbering

Word SLUMBERING
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Definitions and meanings of "Slumbering"

What do we mean by slumbering?

To be in a very light state of sleep, almost awake.

To be inactive or negligent.

To lay to sleep.

To stun; to stupefy.

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The word "slumbering" in example sentences

Those that allow themselves in slumbering, will scarcely keep themselves from sleeping; therefore dread the beginning of spiritual decays; Venienti occurrite morbo -- Attend to the first symptoms of disease. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Intemperance is nine-tenths the cause of murder, criminality and pauperism, the insanity of powerful minds -- minds which might have moulded and shaped the opinions of nations -- and could we but redeem the financial results of this black demon, and call the slumbering drunkards from their graves, we might repeople an empty world, make states, build kingdoms, erect religious and social institutions, and dedicate them to the honor and glory of God. ❋ Emanuel King (1888)

Great occasions only summon as with a trumpet-call the slumbering reserves of my intellect. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

That call my slumbering life to wake to happy things. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

It was immediately succeeded by a blank look of indifference, yet beneath the assumption of indifference his eyes seemed to burn with a kind of slumbering hostility. ❋ Margaret Pedler (N/A)

The forces that did all this vast delving and sculpturing -- the air, the rains, the frost, the sunshine -- are as active now as they ever were; but their activity is a kind of slumbering that rarely makes a sign. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)

One minister counseled his people, let us do nothing to rekindle the slumbering fires of prejudice between the two races. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

You see now the strange beauty of those reptiles slumbering in the ash like arctic vessels submerged beneath a blizzard. ❋ Robert Kloss (2011)

I am writing this in a room strewn with wine bottles, dirty clothes, coffee cups, overturned books, and slumbering men. ❋ Priya Parmar (2011)

Fancy stopped dead, her skin rough with goose bumps, her peaceful slumbering forest now awake and heavy with malice. ❋ Dia Reeves (2011)

I reached across my slumbering husband for the remote. ❋ Jack Canfield (2011)

For instance, how many U.S. missiles in how many silos will be destroyed if a surprise attack catches them still slumbering in their silos, and how many silo-based missiles are likely to remain functional enough for a retaliatory attack? ❋ Ron Rosenbaum (2011)

I steel myself and peer down, only to be instantly entranced by the vision I behold: London, slumbering in moonlight beside the ancient river, steals my breath. ❋ Lucy Weston (2011)

She had depicted them just as Hap remembered, slumbering on the ledge of the sea-cave, with ocean-refracted light shimmering on their grotesque forms. ❋ P. W. Catanese (2011)

And this was no mere slumbering or an idle dream, such as the ones that often delude us. ❋ James L. Kugel (2011)

The next morning they're slumbering peacefully away at 5am when Tim Gunn walks in to tell them to come downstairs as they are -- in PJ's -- and bring one sheet with them. ❋ Holly Cara Price (2011)

We drift over slumbering France, following the silver ribbon of the Seine, climb higher over snow-draped mountains, all in an instant as though time and space have no meaning, until we come at last to the city bathed in gold where rats scurry out of every sewer and into every palace. ❋ Lucy Weston (2011)

From that highest of all vantage points in the city, I looked out over slumbering London. ❋ Lucy Weston (2011)

I climb past the shut-up shops and slumbering residences, along the empty road that runs between them, barred now at the south side until morning comes and the tax collectors once again awake, for nothing enters my city without me being paid my due. ❋ Lucy Weston (2011)

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