From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishsleep through phrasal verb1 sleep through somethingSLEEP to sleep while something is happening and not be woken by it How did you manage to sleep through that thunderstorm?2 sleep through (something)SLEEP to sleep continuously for a long time I slept right through till lunchtime. The baby slept peacefully through the night. → sleep→ See Verb table
Examples from the Corpus
sleep through• I sometimes think Dave could sleep through a world war.• He was not yet soldier enough to sleep through everything.• Neil got to sleep through it all.• If I sleep through the alarm, will you wake me?• He routinely did his Easter duty, kept the Commandments, but often slept through the Sunday slate of masses.• His prison cellmate had slept through the tragedy.• Three-year-olds respond best and infants either sleep through the visit or are the most overwhelmed.• Can you imagine paying all that money to see an opera, and then sleeping through the whole thing?• Here, clinging like autumn leaves to a few favoured trees, some 200m butterflies sleep through the winter.• We learned to sleep through tremendous noises, such as outgoing mortar or artillery or machine-gun fire.sleep through something• He was not yet soldier enough to sleep through everything.• The ruinous boy was now nineteen and sleeping through his gap year.• Neil got to sleep through it all.• If I sleep through the alarm, will you wake me?• He routinely did his Easter duty, kept the Commandments, but often slept through the Sunday slate of masses.• Three-year-olds respond best and infants either sleep through the visit or are the most overwhelmed.• Here, clinging like autumn leaves to a few favoured trees, some 200m butterflies sleep through the winter.• We learned to sleep through tremendous noises, such as outgoing mortar or artillery or machine-gun fire.sleep through (something)• He was not yet soldier enough to sleep through everything.• The ruinous boy was now nineteen and sleeping through his gap year.• Neil got to sleep through it all.• If I sleep through the alarm, will you wake me?• He routinely did his Easter duty, kept the Commandments, but often slept through the Sunday slate of masses.• Three-year-olds respond best and infants either sleep through the visit or are the most overwhelmed.• Here, clinging like autumn leaves to a few favoured trees, some 200m butterflies sleep through the winter.• We learned to sleep through tremendous noises, such as outgoing mortar or artillery or machine-gun fire. 