read someone to sleep

Related to word: read

Pharse

Definition (activity)

  1. To read aloud to someone, typically a child, until they fall asleep.

    • She likes to listen to stories before bed, so her mom reads to her every night to help her fall asleep.

    • When I was little, my grandmother would always read storybooks to me to read me to sleep.

    • Even though he's grown up, he still likes his mom to read him to sleep before he goes to bed.