fall asleep
Go to sleep; also, cease paying attention. For example, As soon as the lights were dimmed he fell asleep, or His lectures are so dull that I fall asleep. The literal usage, which uses the verb fall in the sense of “succumb,” dates from about 1300; the figurative is several centuries newer. Also see asleep at the switch.
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How to use fall asleep in a sentence
These tips will help you fall asleep faster and wake up refreshed.
But they were known for drugging girls and putting cold syrup in big coolers of alcohol so that girls would fall asleep.
From Frat Boys to Criminals: Two College Elites' Scarface Dreams | Olivia Nuzzi | April 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTStep 11: Return to your living room, and fall asleep as a low-budget cop drama plays on a smallish computer monitor.
How to Celebrate 4/20 Without Actually Smoking Weed | Kelly Williams Brown | April 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHeroin blocks this automation so that when you fall asleep, you stop breathing.
Heroin: America’s Silent Assassin | Dr. Anand Veeravagu, MD, Robert M. Lober, MD, PhD | February 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe then pretended to fall asleep during a clip of Lagerfeld explaining how he lost the weight.
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If you don't fall asleep under the wheels of a truck you'll be mighty lucky.
Do not respectable gentlemen fall asleep in their arm-chairs?
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches | William Makepeace ThackerayI stretch myself out on the wooden bench, running along the wall of the cell, and at once fall asleep.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander BerkmanGale 37 brought her supper and then left her alone to fall asleep early and get as much rest as she could.
The Adventure Girls at K Bar O | Clair BlankThen everything is confused: I seemed to fall asleep—a long restful sleep, that was broken by my taking a long journey.
The Bag of Diamonds | George Manville Fenn
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