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Example sentences for "fast asleep"

  • Here, by the light of a guttering and blackened candle, he could barely discern the schoolmaster, fast asleep on a bench in a remote corner.

  • There, sure enough, lay old Tige in the sunshine, fast asleep.

  • Yes, there he is, fast asleep, just like I told you,” he said.

  • He was grunting away merrily, and as fast asleep as though it were mid-winter, and the tree his berloga!

  • The child was, fortunately, fast asleep; neither did it awake when Bruin rolled it over to sniff at it; if it had moved the consequences might perhaps have been fatal.

  • He has oft been awake in the daytime 'tis said, And has fall'n fast asleep as he lay in his bed.

  • A Christmas Eve Adventure Once on a time, in a queer little town, On the shore of the Zuyder Zee, When all the good people were fast asleep, A strange thing happened to me.

  • Illustration: When Fly looked in under the whin there was Honeybird fast asleep.

  • It was Beezledum; and when Fly looked in under the whin there was Honeybird fast asleep.

  • So she covered herself up comfortably, and lay there till she fell fast asleep.

  • But the seventh, when he looked in his bed, saw Snowdrop there, fast asleep.

  • Ogre is fast asleep, and leave me to shift for myself.

  • This is her very guise, and, upon my life, fast asleep.

  • This is a strange repose, to be asleep With eyes wide open; standing, speaking, moving, And yet so fast asleep.

  • It is fairly abundant, but is not very often seen, for all day long it is fast asleep in a hole in some tree, only coming out of its retreat after sunset.

  • One would think that they were fast asleep.

  • The great sail lay in a heap before him; he walked around it, and there, all curled up, fast asleep, was his runaway girl.

  • When she turned Jocko over, he was so afraid of being punished, that he pretended to be fast asleep; but he heard all that his father and mother had said, and knew that they guessed right.

  • Vous etes not too much frighten to go fast asleep?

  • If you're not, I'm fast asleep," said Vince.

  • There was Kitty, fast asleep in Willie's little wagon, and four little kittens lying by her side, fast asleep too.

  • On the step of the gate of an old garden sat Elfrida, fast asleep, with her empty basket in her lap.

  • He stopped, for the fat boy had drawn himself up, and was, or pretended to be, fast asleep.

  • Now, look yonder; there lie four fine fat rattlers, fast asleep on that patch of sand.

  • Old Chris is fast asleep, and I'm going off at last.

  • Here they are upon the ground, fast asleep too.

  • He is fast asleep now," said Bourne, after saying "Good-night!

  • We passed over vast and gloomy forests, where the solemn pines bowed slightly as the seven Winds swept by; and over green meadows, where flocks of sheep lay huddled together, fast asleep.

  • Then Nibble stopped reading, and closed the book softly, for Downy was just as fast asleep as Princekin had been.

  • Nibble, who was as fast asleep as heart could desire, was very much astonished as Brighteyes introduced him to me, and told him all the wonderful things she had heard.

  • When he saw it, he cried, "Somebody's been digging in my garden and here she is fast asleep.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fast asleep" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    already remarked; atmospheric pressure; coral rock; criminal prosecution; dark olive; divers sorts; down below; even among; fast asleep; fast enough; fasten them; fastened together; great excitement; iron plate; lifted his; light troops; remarked the; should hate; since the; thus given; town government; turn back; universally true; wider range; winter visitant