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Example sentences for "heavy sleep"

  • Then I dimly saw the face of the rajah looking down at me, and he said something, but I could not answer, for all was growing misty and strange, and I dropped at once into a heavy sleep.

  • Ivan dropped the blind, dressed himself with particular care in the golden light which filled his chamber, went into his master's room and roused him from his heavy sleep.

  • At the wedding feast the Water Tsar made a great banquet, after which Sadko lay down and fell into a heavy sleep; and when he awoke he found himself on the steep banks of a river near Novgorod.

  • In the morning, on awakening from a heavy sleep, he was seized by a fear lest Louise should have died in the night.

  • Returning to his room, he threw himself on the sofa, and fell into a heavy sleep, from which he did not wake till the morning was well advanced.

  • With their exit an abrupt silence fell, and Maurice sank into a heavy sleep, in which he saw flowery meadows and heard a gently trickling brook.

  • She had been dragging Billy about on his sled up and down the street all the afternoon, so she soon fell into a heavy sleep.

  • Jedd arrived Lammy was in a heavy sleep, from which he roused at the physician's firm touch on his pulse, and began to talk wildly.

  • We must have as many hours' heavy sleep as we can, or we shall never get to the Ghil Valley.

  • Late that night the mother sank into a heavy sleep, but rose early, her bones stiff, her head aching.

  • At last she dropped into bed without undressing, and quickly fell into a heavy sleep, as if she had plunged into a deep abyss.

  • Then she extinguished the lamp, lay down in the cold bed, shriveled up under the bed coverings, and suddenly sank into a heavy sleep.

  • Illustration: Isobel lay down with a story-book on the schoolroom sofa, and soon fell into a heavy sleep.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heavy 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:
    broken only; covered chair; does not; forward movement; heavy blow; heavy body; heavy bombardment; heavy crop; heavy fire; heavy gale; heavy growth; heavy guns; heavy heart; heavy load; heavy losses; heavy ordnance; heavy rain; heavy shower; heavy snow; heavy soils; heavy weight; into the; journey from; political organization; proper treatment; several thousand