Read full poem →Now I am thin and pine,
And has he found to sleep in
A better bed than mine?"
Dictionary Entry
To sleep late; to go on sleeping past one's customary or planned hour.
In a Sentence
“On a rainy Saturday, after a busy week at work, he closed the curtains and decided to sleep in.”
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Poetry examples for “sleep in”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Or lazy lakes unconscious of a flood, 85
Whose dull, brown naiads ever sleep in mud.
Yet here content can dwell, and learned ease,
Read full poem →the night,
And the murmur of spirits that sleep in the shadow of Gods from afar
Grows dim in thine ears and deep as the deep dim soul of a star,
Read full poem →And the wind falls faint as it blows with the fume of the flowers of the night,
And the murmur of spirits that sleep in the shadow of Gods from afar
Grows dim in thine ears and deep as the deep dim soul of a star,
Read full poem →My father may sleep in Paradise,
My mother at Heaven-gate:
Read full poem →Blank sea to sail upon,
Cold bed to sleep in:
Good by.
Read full poem →Let such as be mine enemies have none;
Yea, let my foes sleep in an empty bed,
And in the midst their bodies largely spread:
Read full poem →Swept out by little folks an hour ago;
The pigs sleep in the stye; the bookman comes--
The little boy lets home-close nesting go,
Read full poem →A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in,
A minute to smile and an hour to weep in,
Read full poem →And the billows of cloud that around thee roll
Shall sleep in the light of a wondrous day, _10
Where Hell and Heaven shall leave thee free