sleeping in the PONS Dictionary

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sleep·ing ['sliːpɪŋ] ADJ attr

sleep·ing po·'lice·man N Brit

'sleep·ing sick·ness N no pl

'sleep·ing part·ner N Brit comm

I.sleep [sliːp] N

II.sleep <slept, slept> [sliːp] VB intr

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III.sleep [sliːp] VB trans

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sleeping Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be able to sleep peacefully again
moći ponovo mirno spavati
watching television always sends me to sleep
uvek se uspavam kad gledam televijizu
sleeping tablet
tablete za spavanje
to put an animal to sleep
uspavati životinju euph
we'll be sleeping at Steve's on Saturday night
u subotu ćemo prespavati kod Stiva
to sleep like a log [or baby] inf
spavati kao klada/jagnje
I could do with a sleep
trebalo bi mi malo sna
she made out that she was sleeping
ona se pravila da spava
to catch up on one's sleep
nadoknaditi san
let sleeping dogs lie prov
ne diraj lava dok spava

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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He said that he had taken a sleeping pill, and that he was not under the influence.
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Above the shoe store were several apartments where residents were sleeping.
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Due to its figurative character, the gesture of sleeping, for example, is understood in almost all cultures.
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She had filled in the spaces under subheadings: eating, sleeping, toilet, bath, clothes, play, toys, activities, religion, school, money, time and behaviour.
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These trains offer 1st and 2nd class sleeping cars, and a restaurant car, but no seating accommodation or 3rd class cars.
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From 1920 to 1930, a network of roads was built, cash crops were promoted and mobile health services were formed to combat sleeping sickness.
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Other types of garment are commonly worn for sleeping, but not exclusively so, including t-shirts, tank tops, sweatpants and gym shorts as well as underwear with no outer garment.
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Despairing of life, he ordered his doctor to give to him poison, but the latter gave him only a sleeping draught.
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There have also been reports of wakeful sleeping where a person will spontaneous fall asleep for 0.5 seconds up to 10 seconds without remembering that they were asleep at all.
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The government is pursuing a vigorous policy of public health improvement, with considerable success in reducing sleeping sickness, leprosy, and other endemic diseases.
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