"sleep" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It was understandable that on my first night at Perrivale Court I should find that sleep evaded me.
- Joao closed his eyes, lay back into his seat, but deep sleep evaded him.
- Soon, he was breathing deeply, but sleep evaded Lucilla.
- She was exhausted by a wearying day, yet for a long while sleep evaded her.
- Rachel sighed and tried to catch another hour's shut-eye; but sleep was evading her.
- Near midnight, with sleep still evading him, it occurred to him that there was no point in doing things by halves.
- Again he turned, wondering why sleep evaded him.
- If sleep evaded him much longer he would get up and consult the Saanti.
- Ms. Rubin, who said that a truly good sleep has evaded her for 20 years, is clearly in the latter category.
- He had piddled in his chamberpot, then returned to his bed, only to find that sleep evaded him.
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