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Example sentences for "little sleep"

  • A needed rest, perhaps a little sleep, then away once more by the waysides and through the welcoming hamlets.

  • I took a little refreshment, and tried to get a little sleep, but my mind was too much agitated to allow of it.

  • After eating a plentiful supper of venison, therefore, of which we had a sufficient stock to last us to the Fort, we laid down and got a little sleep.

  • I have left her, going I hope to get a little sleep; she breathes with so much difficulty that she cannot bear to lie down, and never gets any rest but by snatches, as she sits in an arm-chair supported by pillows.

  • She said she was extremely tired, and should like to get a little sleep.

  • My mother, who coughed almost the whole night, is now endeavouring to get a little sleep; so that I will scribble on as fast as I can, while I have no interruption.

  • Fires were kindled, around which the weary souls gathered to obtain, if possible, a little sleep.

  • Our battery was soon joined with them, and most of us being wearied by the days' labors, lay down for a little sleep, as our orders were to move at daylight.

  • After feeding our teams, and preparing some coffee, stretched ourselves on the ground to obtain a little sleep, being pretty well tired out.

  • Our text is followed at the distance of one verse with what seemed to be the words of the sluggard in answer to the attempt to awake him: 'Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.

  • This indolent sleeper asks only for a little: 'A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.

  • But the picture is more sadly and fatally true concerning the man who has made his earthly life 'a little sleep' as concerns heavenly things, and in spite of his beseechings, is roused to life and consciousness of himself and of God by death.

  • Now, thank Gawd, I'll get a little sleep.

  • I vote that we try to get a little sleep," said Hal.

  • However, a fellow can never tell what is going to happen, so in order to be prepared, I'll try and get a little sleep.

  • In the meantime," said Hal, "we may as well try to get a little sleep.

  • Its results are due to hard work, little sleep, much experience, first class equipment, and good fortune as regards weather and open water.

  • I was in my cabin trying to get a little sleep--with my clothes on, for I had not dared to remove them for a week.

  • From now on it was to be a case of "big travel," little sleep, and hustle every minute.

  • At last, when they were exhausted, they turned the sledges on their sides, the Eskimos worked out with their feet snow blocks which reinforced the shelter, and they were able to snatch a little sleep.

  • A little work, a little sleep, a little love," he repeated.

  • A little work, a little sleep, a little love, and it is all over.

  • A little work, a little sleep, a little love.

  • Captain Nicholls then being greatly fatigued, thought he would endeavor to procure refreshment from a little sleep, and, without undressing, threw himself on the side of his bed.

  • The winds calmed, and each of us sought a little sleep, while our good and generous pilot steered our boat on a still very stormy sea.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little 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:
    being baffled; little change; little common; little cream; little dear; little else; little embarrassed; little essence; little face; little figure; little flock; little gray; little grim; little hamlet; little hill; little impatiently; little interest; little lighter; little maid; little missie; little paper; little scream; little shiver; little stick; little temple; little too