be asleep
Frequency: 8.5150.2 per million words
Used to describe the state of being asleep.
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Examples (10)
- Shh, the baby is finally asleep.
- The children were sound asleep by the time we got home.
- Is the cat asleep on the sofa again?
- By midnight, everyone in the house will be asleep.
- He has been asleep for over ten hours.
- It felt like the whole town was asleep under the heavy snow.
- If you make a noise, he won't be asleep for long.
- I was half asleep when the phone rang.
- She realized he had been asleep throughout the entire movie.
- I pretended to be asleep when my mom checked on me.