fall asleep
Example Sentences
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It was the kind of sadness that made him want to curl into a ball and fall asleep until the bad day had passed.
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You slither out onto its snuggly warm blackness, and pretty soon you get so cozy and content lying there that you fall asleep, stretched out and snoring, even.
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Abby would fall asleep in a place she was accustomed to.
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Before she retired, Pani Zuzana sometimes fell asleep in between jobs, so, forgetting that she had retired, I clapped my hands to wake her up.
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I joined Edem under the tree, and the baby girl soon settled in her lap and fell asleep too.
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