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Grammar : Noun
Spell : slee-ping sik-nis
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsli pɪŋ ˌsɪk nɪs



Définition of sleeping sickness

  • noun type of encephalitis
Example sentences :
  • "That's sleeping sickness all right," said Hamilton bitterly.
  • Extract from : « Bones » by Edgar Wallace
  • Pee-wee said, Some engines have the sleeping sickness and they wont go at all.
  • Extract from : « Roy Blakeley's Motor Caravan » by Percy Keese Fitzhugh
  • I think its sleeping sickness or something else slow and certain.
  • Extract from : « Left Half Harmon » by Ralph Henry Barbour
  • Sleeping sickness is very insidious, Brand, but always fatal.
  • Extract from : « Left Half Harmon » by Ralph Henry Barbour
  • The sleeping sickness is the most terrible visitor in an African home.
  • Extract from : « Mpuke, Our Little African Cousin » by Mary Hazelton Wade
  • Deaths from sleeping sickness have occurred in this section of Africa.
  • Extract from : « Seven Legs Across the Seas » by Samuel Murray
  • And they have been killed—not dying by the sleeping sickness?
  • Extract from : « Samba » by Herbert Strang
  • We have lost a few by the sleeping sickness, but only a few.
  • Extract from : « Samba » by Herbert Strang
  • He then sends for you and throws out a suggestion of sleeping sickness.
  • Extract from : « The Mystery of 31 New Inn » by R. Austin Freeman
  • In Africa, now, human beings are dying by millions of the sleeping sickness.
  • Extract from : « The Human Drift » by Jack London

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