How to Use asleep in a Sentence

asleep

1 of 2 adjective

• The cats are asleep on the floor.
• He tries to clean up the house while the kids are asleep.
• She was still asleep at noon.
• All the kids were inside the house that night; the two youngest were asleep.
  — David Begnaud, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2023
• The children and their aunt were still asleep when the building was hit.
  — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
• The first time was in his apartment, with his teenage daughter asleep in the next room.
  — Charlotte Fox Weber, Time, 23 June 2023
• Who was asleep at the wheel of that big yellow taxi, people?
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 5 Feb. 2024
• The driver appeared to be asleep or nodding off, the spokesman said.
  — Laura Meckler, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
• Chris and Carolyn were found still asleep, sitting side-by-side on the deck.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 25 Jan. 2023
• That gives her enough time to get ready for bed by 11:30 p.m. and be asleep before the clock strikes midnight.
  — Katie Mogg, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2024
• Don and Jan Schultz were fast asleep in their New Iberia home when their dog began to growl.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 6 July 2023
• The newborn was asleep and wrapped in a gray blanket and appeared to be cradling her head in the photo.
  — Melissa Montoya, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2023
• Her youngest two, Brooklynn, 9, and Dutch, 7, were still asleep, and she‘d called them that morning.
  — Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
• The couple’s 6-month-old son, their first boy after the birth of five daughters, was asleep in a stroller.
  — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2024
• At the sound of her name, Pigcasso, a 1,500-pound sow asleep in a pile of straw, slowly comes to life.
  — Katie Jackson, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2023
• Once the rhino is asleep, the team covers its eyes and ears and cuts the horn with a chainsaw a few inches from the base.
  — Anna Nordseth, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2023
• Morris was asleep on his cousin’s couch when at least 10 shots were fined into the home.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 9 Aug. 2023
• Garcia was home alone with her three children, ages 11, 9 and 8 — all of whom were asleep.
  — Sydney Page, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
• Authorities have said at least some of the victims were asleep at the start of the attack.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 23 Aug. 2023
• Inside that room, her daughters, ages 4 and 5, were asleep.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Jan. 2023
• Review & Outlook, Nov. 9) was lost in August, when most of the people of my state were asleep at the switch.
  — WSJ, 14 Nov. 2023
• The officer approached the vehicle and found Kapri alone in the car, asleep.
  — John Filippelli, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
• The tach shows 1300 revs, and the wonderful turbo motor is still asleep.
  — Patrick Bedard, Car and Driver, 23 Jan. 2023
• The ship’s mascot, a large Newfoundland dog, was asleep when the ship began to sink and was the only loss on board, the post says.
  — Raja Razek, CNN, 2 Sep. 2023
• Three people were asleep in the cell when the officer approached.
  — Austindedios, oregonlive, 19 Apr. 2023
• Paul Pelosi was asleep at the couple’s home when DePape — who was 42 at the time, roughly half Pelosi’s age — broke in.
  — Stefanie Dazio and Brian Melley, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2023
• Ponsati told them that their two children were asleep in their rooms.
  — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
• Durham said the homeowners were likely asleep when the blaze started.
  — oregonlive, 24 Mar. 2023
• The alert prince, who was asleep at the start of his ceremony, looked up at the sky as he is cradled in his mom's arms.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 21 Mar. 2023
• When the boy was asleep in the hotel, McCarthy looked out at the surrounding landscape.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2023

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asleep

2 of 2 adverb

• The tired boy falls asleep even before the plane takes off.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
• In a scene shown at D23, the mother sings to her two young daughters to help them fall asleep.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 24 Aug. 2019
• These people wake up, start drinking, go to the game and leave or fall asleep by the bottom of the fourth.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 25 Mar. 2018
• Relieved that all is right with the world, Max returns home and falls fast asleep.
  — Peter Brown, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2016
• What kid wouldn't want to fall asleep under these cute, wood-stick tents?
  — Sara Tardiff, ELLE Decor, 12 Aug. 2017
• The child was found in the rear of the vehicle asleep under a large pile of clothing unharmed.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 23 Apr. 2020
• Now go sit in the chair, open the book…and fall asleep immediately.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2022
• But this wasn't to condone those who fall asleep in the audience.
  — Seth Fradkoff, Town & Country, 17 Oct. 2019
• The woman had a few alcoholic drinks and went on to fall asleep in a bedroom.
  — cleveland.com, 16 Aug. 2019
• In the past, Lehua said, her daughter sometimes would go to the garage unnoticed and fall asleep there.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 14 Nov. 2021
• Head back to the Grand to cool off in the indoor pool and hot tub, and if the kids fall asleep early, head to the Canyon Star Saloon for date night.
  — Nena Farrell, Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• After the in-flight meal, a passenger fell asleep next to her — maskless.
  — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2021
• Then maybe that dream of falling asleep more quickly will come true after all -- the healthy way.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 3 Oct. 2021
• The pill helped the children fall asleep faster, by 40 minutes compared with 13 for placebo.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2017
• For example, sometimes humans may laugh or fall asleep in the face of a threat.
  — Dean Mobbs, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2019
• Try not to fall asleep before your in-room yoga session.
  — Marissa Miller, Teen Vogue, 24 Oct. 2018
• On the other is someone who falls asleep at the wheel and causes an accident.
  — Nina Bahadur, SELF, 12 Feb. 2018
• The woman left the apartment when Bivens started to fall asleep, according to the warrant.
  — Olivia Prentzel, nola.com, 5 June 2019
• Sleep training is one way to help your body fall asleep easier.
  — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2022
• Extra points if Prince Charles falls asleep in the middle of the ceremony.
  — Jaya Saxena, GQ, 17 May 2018
• Kids who are tired are also more accident prone, and those who drive are more likely to fall asleep at the wheel.
  — NBC News, 23 Jan. 2020
• So if the driver did fall asleep at the wheel the car should have started slowing down on its own within a few minutes.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 1 Dec. 2018
• The singer, 42, teamed up with the app to record three stories featuring the soothing sound of her voice to help families fall asleep faster.
  — Anya Leon, PEOPLE.com, 23 Feb. 2022
• Hoping to catch the Panthers asleep, a pooch kick was up for grabs on the kickoff, but the Panthers recovered at their own 41.
  — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2019
• Has a tendency to fall asleep off-ball on defense, where he’ll be tested.
  — Jake Fischer, SI.com, 17 June 2018
• It’s much easier to fall asleep without a bright blue-white light keeping me up.
  — Gabrielle Hondorp, Popular Mechanics, 12 Mar. 2020
• The medication both helped the Critics’ Choice Movie Award winner fall asleep faster, sleep longer, and wake up more alert.
  — Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 14 July 2022
• The representatives of the colonies are seen as regular guys who drink, curse and fall asleep at their desks.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 6 June 2017
• But only do this if your little one is a good napper, who can fall asleep anywhere.
  — Laurie Jennings, Good Housekeeping, 4 Feb. 2020
• Dave fell asleep next to Jayden, who was watching cartoons and drawing.
  — Washington Post, 6 June 2020

Last Updated: 3 May 2024