Use asleep in a sentence
Sentences ending with asleep
- And in that wild covert Venters shut his eyes under the great white stars and intense vaulted blue, bitterly comparing their loneliness to his own, and fell asleep. [13]
- I cannot describe what a load of anxiety was lifted from my mind when I found that he was only asleep. [5]
- I poked along well on to an hour, everything still as rocks and sound asleep. [5]
- I felt so weak that I hardly knew whether I was awake or asleep. [10]
- As he sat watching her, he saw that her features were growing easier, and in a short time her deep, even breathing showed that she was asleep. [6]
- The impatient painter was very tired of waiting, so, seating himself on a feeding-manger for asses which stood in front of the adjoining house, he presently fell asleep. [10]
- The little village was still asleep. [4]
- His own couch was covered with fresh linen for the guest--Ulrich already lay in his bed, apparently asleep. [10]
- She thought he was asleep. [11]
- Overpowered by the warmth and comfort and the fatigue they had undergone, Nelly and the old man had not long taken their seats here, when they fell asleep. [12]
Short sentences using asleep
- Sergeant Tom was still asleep. [11]
- He lay like one asleep. [11]
- Joan's mind was not asleep. [5]
- Fast asleep after his fright. [2]
- We shall find him asleep. [5]
- At last she fell asleep. [9]
- At last she fell asleep. [11]
- At last I fall asleep. [11]
- He's asleep there; dead-gone, father. [11]
- We pretended to be asleep. [5]
Sentences containing asleep two or more times
- When Byng's asleep he takes a lot of waking, and he's asleep in this thing. [11]
More example sentences with the word asleep in them
- Later, when the young ladies were asleep, he carried his manuscript to the Democrat office, and delivered it into the hands of his friend, the night editor, who was awaiting it. [9]
- The' 's a young gen'l'm'n up at that school where she go,--so some of 'em tells me, 'n' she loves t' see him 'n' talk wi' him, 'n' she talks about him when she 's asleep sometimes. [6]
- But I thought you were all only trying to make it easier for me, and I heard Warbeck say to Rockwell, when they thought I was asleep, 'It's ten to one against him. [11]
- Now I know you have been asleep for an hour. [4]
- He fell asleep wondering why Judge Whipple had sent him. [9]
- He lay and wondered for a long time, but fell asleep again; and the steely iteration went on in his dreams. [11]
- Through the open window Honora perceived the form of Joshua asleep in the hammock, his Sunday coat all twisted under him. [9]
- His loving old wife sat near by, contentedly knitting and thinking, with a cat asleep in her lap. [5]
- Agne was gazing wide-eyed into the darkness; Dada had long been asleep, but she breathed painfully and her rosy lips were puckered now and then as if she were in some distress. [10]
- The four monks, who had leaned their heads against the cornice of the wide, closed fireplace and, in spite of the flies which buzzed around them, had fallen asleep, awoke. [10]
- He came back, whispering that she was still asleep, but that he thought she had moved. [12]
- By and by, when they was asleep and snoring, Jim says: "Don't it s'prise you de way dem kings carries on, Huck? [5]
- He was asleep when I got home last night. [5]
- Many a time when he had been asleep, with gentle fingers she had caressed his hands, his head, his face; but that did not count, because he did not know. [11]
- Do you remember what I used to say in my lectures?--or were you asleep just then, or cutting your initials on the rail? [6]
- Most of them were already asleep on heaps of straw, which were raised at the head by chairs turned upside down. [10]
- The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window. [12]
- Yes, asleep as well as awake. [5]
- In due time we spread our blankets in the warm sand between two large boulders and soon feel asleep, careless of the procession of ants that passed in through rents in our clothing and explored our persons. [5]
- The old man was yet asleep, and as she was unwilling to disturb him, she left him to slumber on, until the sun rose. [12]
- But my exhaustion was so great that I fell asleep again, and the dream which followed was so delightful that I did not forget it. [10]
- When her prayer was over and the sacrifice offered, the youths fell asleep, and never woke again. [10]
- The band itself was half asleep, but by sheer force of habit it kept on, the fiddlers drawing the perfunctory bows, and the melancholy clarionet men breathing their expressive sighs. [4]
- That west wind was fresh, cool, fragrant, and it carried a sweet, strange burden of far-off things--tidings of life in other climes, of sunshine asleep on other walls--of other places where reigned peace. [13]
- If asleep, he was evidently dreaming, for now and then he started, or his body twitched, and a muttering came from beneath the hat. [11]
- The old hunter was asleep, but his son aroused him, and told him what Uarda had ordered and promised. [10]
- Perhaps her mother was asleep, and she could come with her. [10]
- While my mother was asleep the lunatic succeeded in eluding this man's vigilance and plunged into the river. [10]
- Presently when he was asleep she came softly in with a hammer and drove a hideous tent-pen down through his brain! [5]
- The household cat was asleep on this work of art. [5]
- But when little Walpurga, half asleep, raised her tiny hand and lovingly stroked the wounded shoulder of her adopted mother, the matron, as usual when anything pleasant moved her heart, longed to have her husband at her side. [10]
- Wide awake, she waited for a moment to make sure that she was not mad, or that she was not asleep or in a half-dream. [11]
- It has no use for your help, no use for your guidance, and never uses either, whether you be asleep or awake. [5]
- Presently he hit upon the plan of going while she was asleep. [13]
- Both frequently glanced up at the lighted bow-window and the smaller one on the second story, behind which Eva lay half asleep. [10]
- A woman was up and about, but the man was still asleep, on a straw shake-down, on the clay floor. [5]
- When I woke up an hour ago and heard the clock strike 4, I said "I seem to have been asleep an immensely long time; I must have gone to bed mighty early; I wonder what time I did go to bed. [5]
- Kutuzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. [2]
- They begun raging towards me, but there I was asleep on the bench-stony blind, and then they only spit fire a bit. [11]
- And so they took it out of thy room, when thou wert asleep! [12]
- Pierre went up to the fire, ate some roast horseflesh, lay down with his back to the fire, and immediately fell asleep. [2]
- Drowsiness presently began to settle upon his senses; the faint and far-off boom of cannon was wafted to his ear, and he said to himself, "The new King is crowned," and straightway fell asleep. [5]
- Cousin Maud laughed to see me so drunk asleep, as was not my wont; yet could she not deny that my dream boded no good. [10]
- I fell asleep to pleasant music that night--the patter of rain upon the panes and the dull growling of distant thunder. [5]
- As an example to others, and--not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake. [5]
- Gabord had come to me three times, and seeing how sound asleep I was had not disturbed me, but had brought bread and water--my prescribed diet. [11]
- When I got to it Jim was setting there with his head down between his knees, asleep, with his right arm hanging over the steering-oar. [5]
- The widow said to herself: "There--he's asleep, poor wreck. [5]
- He went close to her and saw that she was asleep! [11]
- All you got to do is to trot up Hooper Street a block and maow--and if I'm asleep, you throw some gravel at the window and that'll fetch me. [5]
- If she ceased to care for life, she could allow death to take her, just as we dream ourselves asleep. [10]
- If I feigned to be asleep, perhaps the thing behind the fan would come out. [9]
- The household was, to all appearance, asleep at the usual early hour. [6]
- I was pretty tired, and the first thing I knowed I was asleep. [5]
- And at length, tired out by stress of thought, he fell asleep. [13]
- And the third time I waked up at dawn, and slid down, and she was there yet, and her candle was most out, and her old gray head was resting on her hand, and she was asleep. [5]
- Pierre, who had thus spent his first sane and conscious hour in many days, fell asleep. [11]
- We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. [6]
- At length, when they had played a great many rubbers and drawn pretty freely upon the case-bottle, Mr Quilp warned his lady to retire to rest, and that submissive wife complying, and being followed by her indignant mother, Mr Swiveller fell asleep. [12]
- She waited till they had entered the bar-room again, and then she went to them, and said: "I guess he's asleep for all night. [11]
- He was lying there, sound asleep on the floor, with his old patch on his eye and his arms spread out. [5]
- In his soul there suddenly arose such an unexpected turmoil of youthful thoughts and hopes, contrary to the whole tenor of his life, that unable to explain his condition to himself he lay down and fell asleep at once. [2]
- These thoughts worked their dim way through Huck's mind, and under the weariness they gave him he fell asleep. [5]
- By and by the watchman came back and said-- 'Didn't that lunatic tell you he was asleep, when he first came up here? [5]
- In spite of the vehement and indignant tones in which his lodger spoke, the senator remained perfectly calm, and presently went away to ask his wife whether she by chance, while he was asleep, had opened the house to the missing woman. [10]
- Next morning when the valet came into the room with his coffee, Pierre was lying asleep on the ottoman with an open book in his hand. [2]
- The games began, the unwilling being forced to play, and before they fell asleep that night they had taken Vincennes, scalped the Hair Buyer, and were far on the march to Detroit. [9]
- At sight of the strange room and its unaccustomed objects she started up in alarm, wondering how she had been moved from the familiar chamber in which she seemed to have fallen asleep last night, and whither she had been conveyed. [12]
- When she heard the second signal on Katuti's silver whistle, she sat upright and muttered: "That gallows-bird Paaker, his vain aunt and that villain Ani, are no match for Rameses, even when he is asleep. [10]
- The balance of the population are asleep within doors, or abroad tending goats in the plains and on the hill-sides. [5]
- Then, weary to the point of exhaustion, he crept into a shallow cave and fell asleep. [13]
- In the silence the placid Angers had fallen asleep. [11]
- Hours after all the others were asleep, Adam and the doctor still sat on a sack of straw, engaged in earnest conversation. [10]
- He turned to the motion of her hand, and saw Laforce asleep on a couch. [11]
- Suffering is necessary... the meaning of all... one must harness... my wife is getting married... One must forget and understand..." And going to his bed he threw himself on it without undressing and immediately fell asleep. [2]
- The latter followed the maid, muttering as she ascended the stairs: "Fallen asleep, found the time hang heavy--that's all! [10]
- By ten o'clock the lights were out in the tannery house, but Cynthia was not asleep. [9]
- The one at the left was sound asleep, with her head resting on her little fat arm. [10]
- In front of the house, not far from the lake, a man was lying asleep upon the ground, a rough felt hat drawn over his eyes. [11]
- He sat in the front seat of the gallery, with his arms and his tired body overflowing the balustrade--sound asleep, dead to all excitements, all disturbances. [5]
- Looking in at the doorway of this hut on a certain autumn day of the year 1797, the first thing to strike your attention was a dog lying asleep on the hearth. [11]
- By this time the detective story had fallen to the floor, and Tom was huddled up in his chair, asleep. [9]
- At last, before the dawn, she fell asleep. [11]
- The readers of the charming story "A Week in a French Country-House" will remember poor Monsieur Jacque's piteous cry in the night: "Ursula, art thou asleep? [6]
- On waking up that morning Count Ilya Rostov left his bedroom softly, so as not to wake the countess who had fallen asleep only toward morning, and came out to the porch in his lilac silk dressing gown. [2]
- Every field on that long route was watched by an armed sentinel, some of whom had fallen asleep, no doubt, but were on hand, nevertheless. [5]
- Presently she saw that he was asleep. [11]
- Then it was that he lifted his head from his hands, and his mind awakened out of a dream as real as though he had actually been asleep. [11]
- But I can tell you, Jim, Uncle Abner was down on them people that's all the time trying to dig a lesson out of everything that happens, no matter whether--" But Jim was asleep. [5]
- It was after sun-up, and I had been sound asleep. [5]
- If they spent Sunday in a town, Cable was up bright and early visiting the various churches and Sunday-schools, while Mark Twain remained at the hotel, in bed, reading or asleep. [5]
- There was a sudden leap and stir of blood that had been asleep for an hour, and as sudden a rousing of all the drowsing activities in our minds and bodies. [5]
- He was in such haste to do this that he detained Wolf, who wanted to speak to old Ursel before he began to drink the wine, by the statement that she suffered from wakefulness, and he would disturb her just as she was falling asleep. [10]
- And there is such a grave analytical profundity in the faces of "The Connoisseurs;" and such pathos in the picture of the fawn suckling its dead mother, on a snowy waste, with only the blood in the footprints to hint that she is not asleep. [5]
- The other was subject to somnambulism, or walking in the night, when he ought to have been asleep in his bed. [6]
- Makar Alexeevich was standing with parted lips, swaying, as if about to fall asleep, as he leaned against the wall. [2]
- She hastened down stairs, crossed the garden, passing by Rufinus, his wife and the physician, awoke the secretary who had long since dropped asleep, and enjoined him to say: "Yes" to his master, as he expected. [10]
- There was little speaking, for the sick man soon fell asleep. [11]
- Then, with a Spanish oath learned in the Netherlands, he turned over, still half asleep, on his side. [10]
- There warn't a sound there; everybody was asleep. [5]
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