Thou sleepest every evening with a rug of fur over thee.
And it stood over my head and charged me saying: 'Sleepest thou, son of wise Atreus tamer of horses?
And he stood above his head and spake a word to him: "Old sire, no thought then hast thou of any evil, seeing thou yet sleepest among men that are thine enemies, for that Achilles spared thee.
Rise up, Śatrughna, from thy bed: Why sleepest thou the night is fled.
And the vision stood over her head and spake: "Sleepest thou, Penelope?
Thou that sleepest the sleep of perversity, who etc.
Thou that sleepest the sleep of perversity, bull that overwhelms, thy name is on the lands.
After a while, as he was thus musing, there appeared before him one in white garments, who said unto him, Sleepest thou or wakest thou, Rodrigo?
Having consumed all creatures and making the universe one vast expanse of water, thou sleepeston the waters in the form of a child.
Thou sleepest in Yoga on thy snake-decked sofa constituted by the thousand hoods (of the Naga).
Thou sleepest on the mountain-breast, and thou art fond of the red hue.
Though thou sleepest and wakest, thy life, however, is passed in great misery.
Up, Lord, why sleepest thou: awake, and be not absent from us for ever.
And he cometh and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou?
Over long thou sleepest there, The while the King's son Hafbur Lies abed by Signy the fair.
Thou livest in the life of all good things; What words thou spak'st for Freedom shall not die; Thou sleepest not, for now thy Love hath wings To soar where hence thy hope could hardly fly.
Now we know that brutes love those by whom they are loved; wouldest thou be worse than a brute, hating thy Benefactor, in whose love thou livest and movest, standest and walkest, sleepest and wakest?
And He cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou!
The first lesson to be gathered from these words is drawn from the name by which our Lord here addresses the apostle: 'Simon, sleepest thou?
Before they had reached the window of the Princess, Dunai said quietly, "Sleepest thou, Nastasya?
And He cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sleepest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
