asleep

Example Sentences

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These audio cues were delivered only after brain monitoring confirmed that participants were asleep.

From Science Daily

I don’t see why watches are important when an FBI agent might be asleep in my canopy bed.

From Literature

When Annad had finally fallen asleep, exhausted by the excitement, Rowan lay awake in his bed, looking out of the window at the huge bulk of the Mountain.

From Literature

It was the kind of sadness that made him want to curl into a ball and fall asleep until the bad day had passed.

From Literature

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.

From Literature