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Example sentences for "sound asleep"

  • He came back presently, reporting that the crew were all sound asleep, and everything quiet around the camp.

  • In fact, it is a fair assumption that, had Captain Sam deserted the island at an early date in its history, the town might have eventually fallen so sound asleep that it would not have awakened to this day.

  • Raising the window directly beside the rod, he slipped inside, closed it softly, and in a few minutes more was abed and sound asleep.

  • NURSE opens door with precaution, comes to beds, looks at both boys, who pretend to be sound asleep.

  • Sherburne, Aubrey and Dalton picked out soft spots on the grass and almost instantly were sound asleep, but Harry lingered a minute or two longer.

  • Thus they found the brilliant General Reynolds, destined to a glorious death afterward at Gettysburg, sound asleep in the bushes, having been lost from his command in the darkness and confusion.

  • Billy could have ridden his horse sound asleep.

  • But even such cold as that could not get down to the hidden snow-house where the old bear lay so sound asleep.

  • But half the time she would be sound asleep, with her head dropped straight down on her stomach, between her little black paws.

  • Some were cooking coffee and frying pork, some were pitching their shelters, and some were already stretched out sound asleep.

  • Why, she was as sound asleep as she ever was in all her life, and there was not the least sign that she was conscious of my touch when I took hold of her arm to lead her from the pantry.

  • The child regarded him questioningly with her big, earnest eyes, and said: "Did it grow cold because mamma went so sound asleep?

  • Rodolph and Siegfried mounted the steps and found the archer with his head resting on his arms spread out over the table, sound asleep, and audibly enjoying his rest.

  • They climbed up the bank and came again to the front of the house, where they found the bowman fully accoutred, sitting with his back against the wall, his head inclined on one shoulder, sound asleep.

  • I am not tired, at least not more so than a man may without shame confess, who has come such a heathenish journey; but I see not the use of such eagerness to reach a city that will be sound asleep when we get there.

  • Many of the Southern troops, sound asleep, awoke to find themselves in the enemy's hands.

  • Dalton lay in the center of it so sound asleep that he was like one dead.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sound 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:
    after that; arts and; brown bread; butter them; foreign enemy; get over; its history; like fashion; optic cables; psychic life; remembered that; sound asleep; sound body; sound currency; sound doctrine; sound learning; sound like; sound policy; sound sleep; sound thrashing; sound waves; sounded like; sounding brass; sounds like; stated periods; tierra caliente