drunken sleep
Frequency: 6.04.8 per million words
a very deep sleep caused by intoxication
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Examples (10)
- He collapsed onto the sofa and fell immediately into a deep, drunken sleep.
- The paramedics had trouble rousing the man from his drunken sleep.
- Waking from a drunken sleep, he had a pounding headache and no memory of the previous night.
- She found him in a drunken sleep on the kitchen floor, still clutching an empty bottle.
- Nothing could penetrate the heavy fog of his drunken sleep.
- The loud noises from the street party did not disturb her profound, drunken sleep.
- His roommate was used to finding him passed out in a drunken sleep after a long week.
- A night of heavy drinking usually ends in a long, unsatisfying drunken sleep for him.
- The character in the novel finally escapes his troubles by succumbing to a drunken sleep.
- It is dangerous to leave someone in a drunken sleep without monitoring them.