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SLEEPER

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sleeper substantiv

1. persoană adormită / care doarme;

light sleeper persoană cu somn uşor.

2. somnoros, persoană somnoroasă.

3. (ferov.) traversă.

4. (amer.) v. sleeping car.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

This suggests that there are few physiological consequences—whether ill effects or benefits — of being an extreme long or short sleeper.

(Researchers explore complex genetic network behind sleep duration, National Institutes of Health)

I am usually an extremely sound sleeper.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am a light sleeper, and it has awakened me.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She paused, and then added, with a sort of assumed indifference, but still in a marked and significant tone—"But you are young, Miss; and I should say a light sleeper: perhaps you may have heard a noise?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

When he was halfway up, he slipped down by a branch, until he sat just above the sleepers, and then let one stone after another fall on the breast of one of the giants.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

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