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Idiom

eternal sleep

Meaning

Death

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“The old dog finally passed away into his eternal sleep.”

“After a long and difficult illness, the writer peacefully drifted into his eternal sleep surrounded by his family.”

“The ancient king, weary from decades of war and political strife, eventually succumbed to the eternal sleep within the quiet walls of his palace.”

Examples

simple

“The old dog finally passed away into his eternal sleep.”

contextual

“After a long and difficult illness, the writer peacefully drifted into his eternal sleep surrounded by his family.”

complex

“The ancient king, weary from decades of war and political strife, eventually succumbed to the eternal sleep within the quiet walls of his palace.”

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