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slumbering
adjective as in asleep
adjective as in dormant
adjective as in quiescent
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Example Sentences
The Rockaways have long been one of the great slumbering secrets of New York City.
In this sense, the 2012 election is the future versus the past, and it brings out barely slumbering tensions and resentments.
Beds, in those days, were warmed with copper warming pans, and nightcaps adorned the slumbering heads of both sexes.
The present crisis had stirred a thousand feelings and associations, in Hadria, which had long been slumbering.
Ere long, the individuals composing the caravan were slumbering, with the exception of two, the Captain and the guide.
But she laughs in her night-cap when you have fallen asleep, and hurls imprecations upon your slumbering body.
She is tender and gay, too, this young lady who reawakens all your better feelings, who rekindles your slumbering desires.
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On this page you'll find 90 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to slumbering, such as: comatose, dormant, catching some zzz's, conked, crashed, and dozing.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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