How to Use go to sleep in a Sentence

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  • Light exposure helps tell the body when to go to sleep and when to wake up.
    Cathy Wong, Verywell Health, 15 Feb. 2023
  • So just work until the end of the night and then go to sleep, and then you won't be invited to any parties.
    WIRED, 6 Jan. 2023
  • My typical routine on a long plane ride is to settle in and go to sleep.
    Stuart R. Levine, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • From her second-story bedroom window, Judy Steer used to wake up to an elm tree in the morning and go to sleep with it at night.
    Connor Giffin, The Courier-Journal, 28 Sep. 2022
  • The families got into the two beds, preparing to go to sleep, women and girls lying lengthwise, boys across the bottom of the bed at their feet.
    Samantha M. Shapiro, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • While trying to go to sleep, simply tap your fingers against certain points on your face and collarbone.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 17 Sep. 2022
  • But just because your spring and summer plants are slumbering (or have all gone to seed) doesn't mean your garden has to go to sleep for a long winter’s nap.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Relax, recharge, unplug, spend time in nature, have fun with family and friends, and go to sleep at a reasonable hour.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • His natural instinct after that was to groom himself and go to sleep — just as van Egmond was getting ready for bed herself.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Two weeks before school begins, start moving bedtimes back by about 20 minutes a night until kids go to sleep at a reasonable hour.
    Julie Jargon, WSJ, 30 July 2022
  • When my older brothers and I were younger (much younger) and still getting toys and things of that nature on Christmas morning, Santa would often leave us a note that went something like this: Santa had to go to sleep.
    Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 23 Dec. 2022
  • But Thibodeaux, a former Oregon Ducks star, was not backing down or apologizing for doing snow angels next to Foles or putting his hands into a ‘go to sleep’ sign on the sideline.
    oregonlive, 4 Jan. 2023
  • He apparently was affected by homeostatic sleep drive, the feeling of pressure to go to sleep.
    Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2022
  • Allie Beth later told him that her husband would not go to sleep until all of the personalized congratulatory notes were done.
    Dallas News, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Stop watering between Thanksgiving and St. Patrick’s Day, or when the temperatures dip consistently below 55 degrees at night, when the plants go to sleep.
    Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Insofar as its respondents actually wanted to go to sleep earlier, these individuals were thus engaging in bedtime procrastination.
    Janosch Deeg, Scientific American, 19 July 2022

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