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Pronounce Sleep as S L EH EH P.

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    Sleep phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'sleep'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of sleep: /slɛɛp/
    • Modern IPA representation of sleep: /slɛɛp/

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    List of meaning for sleep

    the resting state in which the body is not active, and the mind is unconscious

    sleep, slumber(noun)

    a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended

    "he didn't get enough sleep last night"; "calm as a child in dreamless slumber"

    sleep, sopor(noun)

    a torpid state resembling deep sleep

    sleep, nap(noun)

    a period of time spent sleeping

    "he felt better after a little sleep"; "there wasn't time for a nap"

    rest, eternal rest, sleep, eternal sleep, quietus(verb)

    euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)

    "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep"

    sleep, kip, slumber, log Z's, catch some Z's(verb)

    be asleep

    sleep(verb)

    be able to accommodate for sleeping

    "This tent sleeps six people"

    a natural periodic loss of consciousness during which the body restores itself

    neither of them has been getting much sleep since the baby was born

    the state of being dead

    a grieving widower longing to join his beloved wife in her eternal sleep

    the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities

    regretfully put their terminally ill dog to sleep

    to be in a state of sleep the baby slept for the entire length of the car trip

    found the night watchman sleeping at his post

    to engage in sexual intercourse

    if I don't read the tabloids, how will I know who is sleeping with whom this week?

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    sleep in sentence

    1. Although it was the connubial bed, the children seemed to sleep on it more than then husband and wife.

    2. Tiffany took a nap on her three-hour flight to Chicago since there wasn’t much to do but sleep then anyway.

    3. The sleep therapist was studying patients who somnambulate.

    4. Many patients have to be put to sleep prior to an MRI scan due to their claustrophobic feelings of being rolled into a tiny space.

    5. Because she had no singing ability, the try-hard performer had to sleep her way to the top.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term sleep

    Get a good night's sleep and don't bug anybody without asking me. (To re-election campaign manager Clark MacGregor)

    – Richard Milhous Nixon

    At night I would have the seizures and wouldn’t get a lot of sleep at all.

    – Collin May

    Human trafficking is a monstrous and devastating crime that steals lives and degrades our nation, as a result of the FBI's outstanding coordination and exemplary efforts alongside state and local partners during Operation Cross Country, more children will sleep safely tonight, and more wrongdoers will face the judgment of our criminal justice system.

    – Attorney General Loretta Lynch

    . . . .When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer - say traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep - it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best, and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them...

    – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Every night, hundreds of laborers would build the flyover and they would cook and sleep near the site by day, the government wanted to complete the flyover before the elections and the laborers were working on a tight deadline ... Maybe the hasty construction led to the collapse.

    – Ravindra Kumar Gupta

    I think I’ll probably sleep for three days and then I’ll probably take a vacation. we’ve never been big social media people.

    – Chris Soules

    Young children need to nap for optimal performance, you don't want to sleep deprive them to see if they can sleep deeper at night, you want them to sleep the best way.

    – Richard Ferber

    If you open the door to conditions like post-traumatic stress disorder, short-term sleep disturbances ... you start encompassing a lot more people.

    – Mike Sullivan

    Those of you who know me know the anguish that I went through, how I didn't sleep ... the pain and the pressure that I felt by continuing with a farce.

    – Franklin Nieves

    Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut -- Animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

    – Colette

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