Example sentences for: asleep

How can you use “asleep” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And falling asleep to baseball games that I listened to on a transistor radio I smuggled to bed.

  • In The Innocent (1989), a newly engaged couple comes home from a party and goes to bed to make love, only to discover that there is an intruder asleep in their wardrobe.

  • I was asleep, but Luigi was awake, and he thought he detected a vague form nearing the bed.

  • Best of all is a sequence in which Moses falls asleep against the wall of a temple and, in his dream, the two-dimensional hieroglyphs of familiar Egyptian painting begin to move, enacting the story of the Exodus in stiff, horizontal processions.

  • In the story of Briar Rose (or Sleeping Beauty) he found a perfect theme, with knights and maidens and kings and queens all asleep amid the flourishing underbrush.


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