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Example sentences for "could sleep"

  • I was hoarse, could not speak aloud for three days; as I got better my pains and bad feelings left me and I could sleep good; my nerves got better.

  • I could not walk across the room with the pain in my back and sides; but soon the pain was all gone, and I could sleep well at night.

  • I could sleep now—I could sleep—I could sleep.

  • After supper the poor abbe went sadly away, and the count took me to my room, telling me that I could sleep securely in spite of the lack of keys for his sisters-in-law who were lodged close by were no better off.

  • He said it was inconceivable to him how I could sleep in the situation we were in.

  • Redegonde wanted a rest, as indeed did I, but she had to give way when I said caressingly that we could sleep at Minden.

  • But he said again: "I don't think I could sleep.

  • How he wished that he could sleep for a little while and forget everything.

  • I don't think I could sleep," said Artois.

  • But he made the condition that we could sleep there, but must have no light.

  • I could sleep in peace, for I knew that none would come near without me being warned by Capi.

  • Vitalis had said that we should reach a village by night where we could sleep, but night had come, and I saw no signs of this village, no smoke in the distance to indicate that we were near a house.

  • The question of finding a place in which to sleep did not worry me; we could sleep in the open air.

  • He knew of a barn in which he could sleep at Brentor, but it was too late to go back there.

  • He was getting so thirsty that he could sleep no more.

  • She would give up her own bedroom to the Persian girl, and when the cottage was nicely crammed with unquestionable old maids they could sleep together.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "could sleep" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    actual observation; could carry; could catch; could devise; could distinguish; could expect; could have; could hold; could like; could name; could neither; could not have been; could not help being; could offer; could only have been; could see; could stand; could tell; could think; could trust; for once; internal secretion; letter which; national life; penal servitude for life; thing impossible