How to Use sleep with in a Sentence

sleep with

verb
  • Some species wake with the sun and sleep with the moon.
    — Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Do not sleep with your star, and do not let praise go to your head.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Turn it off when leaving a room and don't go to sleep with a space heater on.
    — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 6 May 2026
  • Should Katie feel bad for sleeping with her husband?
    — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Who was sleeping with whom, who used to sleep with whom and now stood on opposite sides of the field.
    — Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
  • Unlike sleeping with your best friend’s daughter, though.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 28 Apr. 2026
  • All three sleep with Doug and Laurie, snuggling through the night.
    — Dan Pompei, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Odysseus also gives the order to kill twelve young house slaves who have been sleeping with the suitors.
    — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
  • Apart from sleeping with one’s professor — students, do not do this!
    — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Guests sleep with nothing but glass between their pillow and a big cat enclosure.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Get a great night’s sleep with these luxurious, super-soft pillows.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Well…don’t sleep with underage people?
    — Emma Specter, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2026
  • For example, the study linked longer-than-normal sleep with depression later in life.
    — Brian Mastroianni, Health, 2 June 2026
  • Cawthorn, who was 18, was sleeping with his legs on the dashboard when the collision occurred.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Is that weird-looking guy literary-famous, or did one of us sleep with him in 2014?
    — Blythe Roberson, New Yorker, 4 June 2026
  • My 15-year-old son literally took a butcher knife from the kitchen and slept with it under his pillow.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 15 Apr. 2026
  • People sleep with earplugs for many reasons, like excessive city noise, loud neighbors, or even a snoring partner dozing next to them.
    — Sherri Gordon, Health, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Everybody wants to think that Douglas had an affair, slept with Marilyn, made love.
    — Michael Soncin, Vanity Fair, 9 June 2026
  • The contributors grabbing the raciest headlines of late have been women bragging about sleeping with scores of men.
    — Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Jonas had previously shared a photo of him sleeping with a blanket that had Stamos’ picture on it.
    — Brie Stimson, FOXNews.com, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The film follows two couples whose friendship turns rocky when the husband of a divorcing couple sleeps with the wife of an open marriage couple.
    — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Between wash days, consider protecting your curls by sleeping with a silk bonnet or silk pillowcase.
    — Aimee Simeon, Glamour, 7 May 2026
  • Punch still sleeps with his toy every night, but Mizushina said the next thing keepers want to see is Punch bunched up with other monkeys to sleep.
    — ABC News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Most people optimizing sleep with supplements and trackers haven’t addressed this first.
    — Allison Palmer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The Avalanche are eight wins from sleeping with a Stanley Cup and two losses from waking up in Cancun.
    — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 23 May 2026
  • Val pushed a pencil into the electric sharpener and asked if Darcy was planning to sleep with Philip before the end of the term.
    — Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
  • In a flashback to the Italian inn, Lestat storms in on Gabriella sleeping with a rando, having heard her through the walls.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 29 June 2026
  • Insider tip For an immersive experience, be sure to sleep with the windows open all night to hear the sounds of nature—and maybe a distant roar.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The inventory includes everything from miniature robes and special toiletries to a tent where the kiddos can sleep with toys to keep them entertained.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 June 2026
  • Most Americans sleep with their phone in the bedroom — and the science says that habit is costing them nearly an hour of sleep per week, though not for the reason most people think.
    — Allison Palmer, Charlotte Observer, 13 Apr. 2026

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