Change from a waking to a sleeping state.
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Examples for "fall asleep "
Examples for "fall asleep "
1 A very long time passed before she was able to fall asleep .
2 Will's grandfather used to tell him stories to help him fall asleep .
3 They work in the fields and they fall asleep tired and content.
4 You don't really think I'll be able to fall asleep , do you?
5 No way would I fall asleep on the way down to Florida.
1 At the moment, he sits on his bike finessing dope off some sixteen-year-old junkie named Josh who lifts weights and has a trendy short haircut.
2 Just lying around in your room doping off ?
1 After all the stuff you've been through, don't flake out now.
2 Tom and I eat lunch and flake out on the ledge.
3 You flake out again and I'll snatch your bars so fast it'll make your head spin.
4 Don't flake out on me this time.
5 I won't flake out on you again.
1 The ship did not just drift off course, it started to sink.
2 He'd drift off after a while, content, even happy for her presence.
3 As he began to drift off , Gerrod thought he heard someone chuckle.
4 I drift off to sleep, carried by the sound of distant conversations.
5 I would drift off , then feel jolts of pain through my arms.
1 Unthinkably, given the proximity of farting strangers, I start to nod off .
2 Actually, Hype was too long, and I had begun to nod off .
3 Knowing how difficult his night would be, I let him nod off .
4 Two hours later, he realized that he was going to nod off .
5 Sean was so anxious and desperate for sleep, she couldn't nod off .
1 Good young male-driven opening business this weekend looks to drop off rapidly.
2 Unfortunately once infection progresses to chronicity, treatment success rates drop off considerably.
3 She had decided to drop off the items on her way home.
4 The Swede and I hung upon the side-ladders, ready to drop off .
5 Then the fiery darts fizzle out, and the points drop off them.
1 Then the door closed, and Mrs. Baxter instantly began to doze off .
2 And drink a little of that beef broth before you doze off .
3 Every time they doze off they'll be falling and they'll wake up!
4 And then, a few minutes later, she started to doze off .
5 I was just beginning to doze off when I heard some tiny sounds.
1 After turning loose my search program, I drowse off .
2 He was inclined to drowse off to sleep in the middle of these tasks, a habit which both irritated and frightened his young teacher.
3 Fatigue bore so heavily upon Becky that she drowsed off to sleep.
4 As I was drowsing off again, she spoke very gently to me.
5 After this he drowsed off again into a half torpor of sleep and exhaustion.
6 In a taxi, sort of drowsing off in the back.
7 But he could remember, night after night, drowsing off to the sound of Gus's voice.
8 I needed activity to keep from drowsing off , so I hopped down from the counter.
9 Thus he drowsed off at last, with fantastic dreams swiftly solving the sum of his problems.
10 The well-strung muscles loosening, the heart beating a slower measure, the busy mind drowsing off to listlessness.
11 The old man had drowsed off .
12 This made no special stir in my intelligence, and I drowsed off again to the pleasant rhythm of the wheels.
13 Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known.
15 What with the food and the warmth the little Italians soon grew so sleepy that they drowsed off before our eyes.
16 Inside the fragrance of his enclosure, he felt himself drowsing off , the weight of his book pulling itself from his hand.
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