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.
  • Some of the kids fell asleep in class.
    — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 29 May 2026
  • Shaeve White couldn’t fall asleep.
    — Rebecca Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
  • Not that Sony is asleep at the wheel.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
  • So imagine all four of us are asleep.
    — Sarah Lynch Baldwin, CBS News, 1 May 2026
  • The baby stayed asleep in her car seat.
    — Miriam Toews, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • Christine will be asleep in bed.
    — Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Now both husband and wife were fast asleep.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026
  • At least one was an infant, asleep in the back seat.
    — Paige Williams, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • The rest of the lodge guests are either asleep or out on game drives.
    — Sarah Kingdom, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • All the kids were inside the house that night; the two youngest were asleep.
    — David Begnaud, CBS News, 25 Mar. 2023
  • County leaders were asleep or out of town.
    — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 24 Sep. 2025
  • All of the perks above make falling and staying asleep a breeze.
    — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 24 June 2026
  • Miguel's brother was asleep and did not answer the calls.
    — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Ponsati told them that their two children were asleep in their rooms.
    — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Every class, three or four of the teenage students would be asleep.
    — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The children and their aunt were still asleep when the building was hit.
    — Sarah Ferguson, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2024
  • Holle, then 20, was at home and asleep when the killing happened.
    — Abigail Brooks, NBC news, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The whir of the white noise machine that helped my daughter fall back asleep.
    — Aisha Muharrar, Bon Appetit Magazine, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Their two children were asleep in their bedrooms at the time of his death.
    — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 17 Apr. 2026
  • All the other tribemates were asleep.
    — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The first time was in his apartment, with his teenage daughter asleep in the next room.
    — Charlotte Fox Weber, Time, 23 June 2023
  • Weir and her husband, Tom, were asleep at the time and were tossed from their bed.
    — Kansas City Star, 30 Oct. 2025
  • He was found asleep in an In-N-Out drive-thru line.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • Your body needs to drop its core temperature to fall and stay asleep.
    — Allison Palmer march 4, Charlotte Observer, 4 Mar. 2026
  • On some level, seeing Patrick asleep wasn’t a huge shock.
    — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Only have 15 minutes while your kid is asleep?
    — Laura Baehr, The Conversation, 7 May 2026
  • But prior to this daymare, too many of us had fallen asleep at the wheel.
    — Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 9 June 2026

asleep

2 of 2 adverb
  • What kid wouldn't want to fall asleep under these cute, wood-stick tents?
    — Sara Tardiff, ELLE Decor, 12 Aug. 2017
  • Sleep training is one way to help your body fall asleep easier.
    — L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune, 15 Nov. 2022
  • But this wasn't to condone those who fall asleep in the audience.
    — Seth Fradkoff, Town & Country, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Relieved that all is right with the world, Max returns home and falls fast asleep.
    — Peter Brown, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2016
  • Users report falling asleep faster and staying asleep longer.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Then maybe that dream of falling asleep more quickly will come true after all -- the healthy way.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 3 Oct. 2021
  • The woman had a few alcoholic drinks and went on to fall asleep in a bedroom.
    — cleveland.com, 16 Aug. 2019
  • For example, sometimes humans may laugh or fall asleep in the face of a threat.
    — Dean Mobbs, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2019
  • But only do this if your little one is a good napper, who can fall asleep anywhere.
    — Laurie Jennings, Good Housekeeping, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Now go sit in the chair, open the book…and fall asleep immediately.
    — Jason Gay, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2022
  • 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
  • Has a tendency to fall asleep off-ball on defense, where he’ll be tested.
    — Jake Fischer, SI.com, 17 June 2018
  • After the in-flight meal, a passenger fell asleep next to her — maskless.
    — Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2021
  • On the other is someone who falls asleep at the wheel and causes an accident.
    — Nina Bahadur, SELF, 12 Feb. 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
  • The child was found in the rear of the vehicle asleep under a large pile of clothing unharmed.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Take note of his simple tips ahead to fall asleep happily wrapped in a cleaner comforter tonight.
    — Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful, 8 July 2021
  • Dave fell asleep next to Jayden, who was watching cartoons and drawing.
    — Washington Post, 6 June 2020
  • Mike studied where each justice sat and would predict which justice would ask the first question or fall asleep first.
    — Mark Eddington, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Giovanna had fallen back asleep.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Someone who is relaxed with eyes closed but not asleep produces alpha waves at around 10 hertz.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 June 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In fact, there are plenty of people who would prefer to fall asleep now and wake up when December ends.
    — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 18 Dec. 2020
  • Does the 4-7-8 breathing method really help someone fall asleep faster?
    — Serena Coady, Glamour, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Eating kiwi before bed is the latest hack that people swear by for falling asleep faster and staying asleep longer.
    — Kathleen Ferraro, Verywell Health, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The pill helped the children fall asleep faster, by 40 minutes compared with 13 for placebo.
    — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2017
  • Just pop one or two of these colorful little bears to start the day anxiety-free, or to fall asleep more easily at night.
    — Hillary Maglin, Travel + Leisure, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The woman left the apartment when Bivens started to fall asleep, according to the warrant.
    — Olivia Prentzel, nola.com, 5 June 2019

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