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.