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sleep through

verb

  1. informal.
    (of a baby) to sleep all night without waking up


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“Not for the snorer, for the person who needs to sleep through the snoring,” says Laurent, laughing.

It had been established early that Moomins sleep through the winter with tummies full of pine needles.

A few floors up, on Deck 9, Rian Tipton and her friends were trying to sleep through the loudspeaker announcements.

A few months after beginning gardening, she was able to sleep through the night without medication.

I, who had seen trees only in parks and illustrated books, wandered in my sleep through interminable forests.

"The captain be damned" said I, and we let him sleep through two hours of chase till a rainstorm swallowed us up.

But at last he must sleep through sheer drowsiness, and they both went to bed.

How do you suppose Mr. Sharp can sleep through all this din?

What fools these peasants are to sleep through such a night!

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