slept

[ slept ]

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of sleep.

slept

/ slɛpt /

verb

1. the past tense and past participle of sleep

Other Words From

• under·slept adjective

Example Sentences

“Bars love to tell those stories: ‘So and so drank here, and George Washington slept here,’” Sismondo says.

From The Daily Beast

By nightfall, I had showered, eaten some soup that a friend brought me, and I slept in my room for 12 solid hours.

From The Daily Beast

I worked a lot of 11-7 shifts, and so had to stay awake, although most of the nights other people slept.

From The Daily Beast

Bin Laden killed the boy, not us, and I slept and I dreamed.

From The Daily Beast

He slept in an upright position in a custom armchair, so the reasons for his lying down to sleep are open to speculation.

From The Daily Beast

I slept some hours, but was perpetually disturbed with dreams of the place I had left, and the dangers I had escaped.

From Project Gutenberg

I have fed and slept at inns, living on the worst of fares and sleeping on the hardest, and hardly the cleanest, of beds.

From Project Gutenberg

Whatever servant had not slept in the house the previous night forfeited his right to the money.

From Project Gutenberg

The mosquito bar was drawn over her; the old woman had come in while she slept and let down the bar.

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Madame Antoine had cooked little else than the mullets, but while Edna slept Robert had foraged the island.

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Related Words

• bed down
• doze
• fall asleep
• languish
• relax
• snooze