Examples of 'had been sleeping' in a sentence

Meaning of "had been sleeping"

had been sleeping: Indicates a state of being asleep or resting that occurred in the past. It suggests a period of somnolence before a certain point or event. Context: He had been sleeping for hours when the alarm finally woke him up

How to use "had been sleeping" in a sentence

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had been sleeping
It was obvious she had been sleeping in his bed.
She had been sleeping with your husband.
Until then everyone had been sleeping soundly.
We had been sleeping together for a few months.
I had no idea we had been sleeping so long.
We had been sleeping when the storm started.
Detainees said that they had been sleeping in shifts.
She had been sleeping for so long.
Something that had been sleeping.
He had been sleeping rough at the time.
Most of the victims had been sleeping.
Somebody had been sleeping in their beds.
It was late at night and he had been sleeping.
The nutjob had been sleeping here for weeks.
They would feel as if they had been sleeping.

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A man he knew had been sleeping with his wife.
There was an area where it appeared that someone had been sleeping.
I had been sleeping to try to forget about it.
No wonder she had been sleeping so well.
I had been sleeping deeply when the thunder awoke me.
He noticed the filthy skins he had been sleeping on when he was blind.
They had been sleeping when the angel came.
It belonged to the other student who had been sleeping.
Where she had been sleeping now.
It was clearly a huge contrast from the place where she had been sleeping.
Many of them had been sleeping out in the streets.
Rachael gasped looking at the bed realising that someone had been sleeping in the bed.
He had been sleeping on the streets for five days.
They looked like they had been sleeping in the dirt for days.
I had been sleeping and all this had happened.
The fire had trapped the women who had been sleeping on the third floor.
I had been sleeping on the floor as usual.
Rumor had it that a DS had been sleeping.
He had been sleeping lightly when something woke him up.
Han Sen did not know how long he had been sleeping.
He found that he had been sleeping on a makeshift bed.
White and pink flowers bloomed where Shin had been sleeping.
They had been sleeping on the floor inside the building.
And find out that Zoe had been sleeping with her son.
I had been sleeping between contractions.
Neither he nor I had been sleeping that night.
He had been sleeping so well that he did not hear them coming.
I found out that Arlo had been sleeping with Lilah.
I had been sleeping in the grass not far from them.
Dorian also exposed that Jared and Natalie had been sleeping together.
The nut job had been sleeping here for weeks.
And we can tell them Lawrence Vinter had been sleeping with her.
He had been sleeping on a park bench.
Magda asked if I had been sleeping.
They had been sleeping on asphalt.

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