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sleeping

/ˈsliːpɪŋ/ noun C2
  1. The state of being asleep, or an instance of this. (countable, uncountable)

Plural sleepings

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Teddy carried him off to bed, and insisted on Rikki-tikki sleeping under his chin.
The Jungle Book, p. 72 · B2
So they picked up Toto and put the dog in Dorothy’s lap, and then they made a chair with their hands for the seat and their arms for the arms and carried the sleeping girl between them through the flowers.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 50 · B2
It was the noise that bewilders woodcutters and gypsies sleeping in the open, and makes them run sometimes into the very mouth of the tiger.
The Jungle Book, p. 3 · B2
“But this is no time for sleeping.
The Jungle Book, p. 16 · B2

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