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• The goal was for the toddler to sleep through the night.
  — Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 7 May 2024
• This is a must add item to sleep soundly through the heat.
  — Taylor Gumm, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2023
• The thought alone of settling in for a three hour flick might put you to sleep.
  — Milan Polk, Men's Health, 31 July 2023
• Or, pick up a baby and sing it to sleep in the hallway.
  — Eva Wiseman, Vogue, 21 Dec. 2023
• This is my secret room to sleep, read, and hide for a while.
  — Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Aug. 2024
• Her hosts, rock climbers who knew her habits, had lent her a van to sleep in.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
• On the hottest nights, some of the city’s poor haul thin mattresses up to their rooftop to sleep.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2024
• The young victims said they’d been locked in the barn for about 12 hours and were forced to sleep on the concrete floor.
  — Kizzy Cox, Essence, 2 July 2024
• City police advised her to sleep with the blinds closed.
  — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 27 May 2024
• She was once again allegedly made to sleep on the thin mat.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2023
• Most of the infants died after they were placed to sleep on or with the pillows.
  — Suzy Khimm, NBC News, 11 Sep. 2023
• Some were helping out in exchange for a couch to sleep on from time to time.
  — Kat McGowan, NPR, 29 May 2024
• She was too wired to sleep and too scared to eat, afraid of being poisoned.
  — J Wortham January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 2 May 2024
• The seasons of Deer Isle in a 10-course tasting menu—plus stylish cottages and suites to sleep in.
  — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 5 May 2024
• And then just the way guys always treated me, like, in terms of trying to sleep with you.
  — Jill Mapes, Pitchfork, 20 Nov. 2023
• While the tents are no longer set up, protesters appear to still have plans to sleep on the lawn.
  — Sanya Mansoor, TIME, 19 Apr. 2024
• At night, the distant roar of waves barreling down onto the reef lulls the town to sleep.
  — Daniel Cole, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Feb. 2024
• The moon’s clash with Neptune inspires you to sleep in and stay under the covers.
  — USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
• In Bakhmut, there was never even time to sleep, Stayer said.
  — Michael Schwirtz David Guttenfelder, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2023
• Bat boxes are designed to give bats a safe place to sleep during the day and raise their pups.
  — Lauren David, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• Many in Marrakech were forced to sleep outside in the streets, with damage to homes and many historic sites in the city.
  — NBC News, 10 Sep. 2023
• To get close to the stage, the group had planned to sleep outside the arena in the freezing temperatures.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, New York Times, 29 July 2023
• Someone went to an Airbnb and came back with a few bedsheets, and the protesters did their best to sleep on the ground.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
• This isn’t about forcing yourself to go to the opera when an aria only gives you a headache (or puts you to sleep).
  — Theresa Tamkins, SELF, 3 May 2024
• Two handfuls might put you to sleep mid-bath (careful!).
  — Liana Schaffner, Allure, 21 Sep. 2023
• Even if DeBoer’s playoff formula — get a lead, park the bus — puts you to sleep along the way.
  — Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 13 May 2024
• The roomy design is plenty big enough to sleep four adults and even tall enough for people over 6 feet to stand up.
  — Theresa Holland, Peoplemag, 5 June 2023
• Such a person might need a year or more of living expenses in the bank to sleep well at night.
  — Steve Garmhausen, wsj.com, 3 Oct. 2023
• The same old establishment lies cannot be allowed to lull them back to sleep.
  — Connor Okeeffe, Orange County Register, 17 Oct. 2024
• At night, McCray sits with her mom to coax her back to sleep only then to lie awake herself worrying about the future.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024