sleep through

phrasal verb

slept through; sleeping through; sleeps through

: to sleep without being awakened by (something, such as a loud noise)

She slept (right) through the thunderstorm.

Examples of sleep through in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Bass' 3-year-old grandson slept through the entire event and went unscathed. —

Christina Coulter, Fox News, 19 June 2024 The baby even slept through the night, so his rookie dad was able to get some sleep before his big day. —

Gabrielle Starr, Hartford Courant, 3 June 2024 Jane Seymour sleeps through her alarm owing to Irish magic and misses her flight. —

Rachel Handler, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2024 Neither of our kids is big on sleeping through the night. —

Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 10 May 2024 One thing is clear: No one should be sleeping through this historic trial ... —

Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2024 Passengers can sleep through the duration of the flight, arriving rested. —

Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Mar. 2024 In one episode of the new World War II epic Masters of the Air, a character collapses from exhaustion and sleeps through the events of D-Day, which were so memorably dramatized in Saving Private Ryan. —

Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 24 Jan. 2024 An Arkansas mom didn’t know why her baby wasn’t sleeping through the night. —

Kim Komando, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2024

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