sleeping
/ˈsliːpɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.56 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’"
- "We found a sleeping child inside the church."
- "Irregular bedtimes may disrupt healthy brain development in young children, according to a study of intelligence and sleeping habits. ¶ Going to bed at a different time each night affected girls more than boys, but both fared worse on mental tasks than children who had a set bedtime, researchers found."
- "And as I lay and lened and loked in the wateres / I slombred in a slepyng, it swyved so merye."
- "[…] there are no words to describe the way she negotiated the abyss between her dreams, those wakings strange as her sleepings."