How to Use sleep through in a Sentence

sleep through

phrasal verb
  • Neither of our kids is big on sleeping through the night.
    Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024
  • DeBusschere, Bill’s roommate on the road, slept through most of that.
    John McPhee, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The baby even slept through the night, so his rookie dad was able to get some sleep before his big day.
    Gabrielle Starr, Hartford Courant, 3 June 2024
  • Bass' 3-year-old grandson slept through the entire event and went unscathed.
    Christina Coulter, Fox News, 19 June 2024
  • French kids sleep through the night practically straight from birth.
    Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • One thing is clear: No one should be sleeping through this historic trial ...
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024
  • An Arkansas mom didn’t know why her baby wasn’t sleeping through the night.
    Kim Komando, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2024
  • The only person not fazed was Richard Attenborough, who slept through the storm.
    Brendan Morrow, The Week, 9 June 2023
  • But don't worry if your baby sleeps for only 30 minutes at a stretch or seems nowhere close to sleeping through the night.
    Parents Editors, Parents, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Jane Seymour sleeps through her alarm owing to Irish magic and misses her flight.
    Rachel Handler, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The high school where exhausted children sleep through class and teachers keep their students’ overnight work schedules on sticky notes.
    Longreads, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Staying up late one night isn’t going to set a toddler back (and, as Colquitt noted, many little ones can sleep through anything.
    Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 9 Feb. 2024
  • In July, our writers and editors picked up gear for the beach, for grilling, and for sleeping through non-stop air conditioner hum.
    Nicola Fumo, Peoplemag, 31 July 2023
  • For those who struggle, a sleep mask can sometimes make all the difference between sleeping through the night and laying in bed, tossing and turning for hours.
    Rozalynn S. Frazier, Verywell Health, 10 May 2023
  • Researchers found people working one fewer day a week report getting more sleep through the week, which has a whole host of health benefits.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2023
  • Holly and Wayne The morning of Holly’s wedding could not have been more chaotic as the bride-to-be slept through her eyelash appointment, and sobbed about the missing makeup.
    Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Convinced that having a baby who slept through the night mattered more than having their own room, the couple moved out of the bedroom and gave it to their baby, who had been sleeping in the living room.
    Laura Fenton, Curbed, 23 Jan. 2024
  • Passengers can sleep through the duration of the flight, arriving rested.
    Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Some infants will sleep through the night almost immediately, while others struggle to slumber a few hours at a time.
    Meagan Francis, Parents, 21 June 2023
  • Hampton, who slept through the event but saw the time-lapse captured by his department’s all-sky camera, said clear skies in Fairbanks also allowed for an excellent view Saturday morning.
    Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2023
  • What's more, for some, hitting the button multiple times over 30 minutes may spark alertness more quickly than sleeping through without a break, according to the study, published Wednesday in the Journal of Sleep Research.
    Linda Carroll, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Presumably, this was an opportunity that deSouza did not want to miss, the way that Microsoft slept through the rise of mobile computing, or Yahoo, which once declined to buy Google, watched that rival develop search.
    Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 27 July 2023
  • But magnesium may indirectly affect sleep through its effects on melatonin.
    Maggie O'Neill, Health, 10 Jan. 2024
  • While the exact mechanisms are not fully understood, research suggests that CBD may influence sleep through multiple pathways.
    Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2023

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