"sleep" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Now he was calm again, though his mind, searching for ways of escape, was too active to allow sleep.
- His face was peaceful, but very tired, as though he had at last shed some terrible burden and allowed sleep to overtake him.
- I was not allowed enough sleep.
- Shannow gave up and lay back on the blanket, allowing sleep to wash over him.
- During the first three days he is allowed no food or sleep and told to write an exhaustive essay on his life to date.
- He lay down wearily, only to find his nerves still too strung up to allow sleep.
- A few hours of work on the manuscript might soothe her nerves enough to allow sleep.
- Maybe it's a good thing I don't have a lover, she thought muzzily as she allowed sleep to take her.
- One evening, when he yawned, I asked him how much sleep he allowed himself.
- Minds simply refused to let go enough to allow deep sleep.
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