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Meanings of sleepers in English
Mucus naturally discharged from the eyes, nose, or mouth during sleep.
Synonyms
Examples for "sleep"
Examples for "sleep"
1
Several months ago a new prisoner was moved into the sleep house.
2
Bad sleep can lead to a host of health problems, Smagula said.
3
It may be best to sleep on a particular problem or concern!
4
However, a clear effect of sleep deprivation on aggressive behaviors remains unclear.
5
They sleep for seven months of the year - often in groups.
1
Higher costs for labor, beef and cheese also hampered results, Brinker said.
2
The prices for most products sold including butter and cheese also fell.
3
There is not much cheese and it's mostly no good, he said.
4
Place in the pan in a hot oven to toast the cheese.
5
We need water, wine, bread, cheese and anything else you can spare.
1
The aid included night vision goggles and weapons used in border security.
2
This time he didn't need any of the subtitles the goggles supplied:
3
I said that we had goggles and glasses in science and technology.
4
When a lot of people see VR goggles, they immediately think gaming.
5
Take your goggles off for fine views across the Dee towards Snowdonia.
1
Our young Princess says her husband has a rheum in his eyes.
2
Scrofula, salt-rheum, and ophthalmia, are among the chief developments at the North.
3
Question: why, an hour in clamour and a quarter in rheum.
4
I've done with rhyming; the rheum gripes me at the gullet.
5
Take this hare's scut to wipe the rheum from your eyes.
1
That and their winkies.
2
The next day they called the Winkies together and bade them good-bye.
3
When they reached the castle Dorothy said to the Winkies:
4
I offered to arm all my Winkies and march to Ozma's assistance; but she said no.
5
The Winkies were not a brave people, but they had to do as they were told.
1
They bent round a corner and gound themselves skirting a precipice.
2
He ground his teeth together, he chewed his tongue through, he gound his face upon the stones.
3
You go after Morelli and you're gonna be swinging on a broken branch, high off the gound, all alone.
4
"Anyway," said Lamont, "it clears the gound.
1
She looked up at me for the first time in a hundred hours, eyes crusted over.
2
The head was little more than a hairless skull with eyes crusted over behind blackened lids.
Usage of sleepers in English
1
Poor sleepers cost the country 63 billion per year in lost productivity.
2
Michael Buchanan reports on the challenges of getting rough sleepers proper treatment.
3
Suddenly a shot rang out in the darkness and aroused the sleepers.
4
The two sleepers had woke in time to cling to the mast.
5
Side-sleepers, the company told me, are said to prefer the luxury firm.
6
We hear nothing but the breathing or the snoring of the sleepers.
7
Heavy sleepers will obviously be better served by a traditional sound alarm.
8
This vague story, and that of the seven sleepers in Sura xviii.
9
The tumbled, discoloured bed linen actually preserved the impressions of the sleepers.
10
He quietly stole to the bedside of the innocent and aged sleepers.
11
Make up your own bed and turn in, without waking the sleepers.
12
The sleepers would wake up the hard way, as he had done.
13
The aroused sleepers instinctively comprehended the situation and sprang to their feet.
14
One after another he picked out the steady breathing of the sleepers.
15
They were close to the guns before any of the sleepers awoke.
16
They must be sound sleepers in our fortress there, said the Admiral.
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Sleepers through the time
Sleepers across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common