Asleep in example sentence

On Sunday, for example, one could not get him out of the drawing-room, whither Madame Homais had called him to fetch the children, who were falling asleep in the arm-chairs, and dragging down with their backs calico chair-covers that were too large.

More example sentences with word asleep

I fell asleep on the plane until, during the middle of the night, we landed on the Azores Islands for refueling.

In Madrid, Maria Gonzalez is standing at the door, listening to her baby crying and crying, trying to work out whether she should let it cry until it falls asleep or pick it up and hold it.

And by modulating the amount of blue in our environment, we can help people to relax, or to be alert, to fall asleep, or to stay awake.

A few years after that, in Bangalore, I was finding it hard to fall asleep one night, and I picked up this book, thinking it would put me to sleep in 10 minutes.

All example sentences