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View definitions for sleeper

sleeper

noun as in late bloomer

noun as in nightgown

noun as in pajamas

noun as in sleeping car

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Example Sentences

Hollywood might possibly fear North Korean sleeper cells capable of blowing up theaters that screen anti-Nork films.

But faced with a sleeper hit, HBO shockingly did not quite feel the same way.

Sam Brownback—The Kansas Governor might be the sleeper in this race to crazy.

An accidental polyphasic sleeper, Bartiromo rests in naps rather than eight-hour chunks like the rest of us.

One night late that summer they put him aboard the sleeper for Winnipeg, and when he got off he asked for the Marlborough Hotel.

On his return he introduced them on the Midland, both the parlour car and the sleeper.

Woman—Thou beest a sound sleeper—Wake up, and see to thy bairn, and I will gie thee both a good breakfast.

His words mingled in my dazed mind with the sighs of the troubled sleeper and the crying of the wind about the tent.

Recovering from his fit of abstraction, Pyne, casting a final keen glance at the sleeper, walked out of the room.

With a look of intense loathing the queen bent down and laid her head on the sleeper's breast.

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On this page you'll find 83 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sleeper, such as: also-ran, long shot, underdog, hundred-to-one shot, improbability, and little chance.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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