Sally, the American student, was half-asleep at a corner table after a pub crawl.
And he rammed his own rifle one inch from the face of the half-asleep figure.
Nasmyth was half-asleep when the cook and the leader of the gang came in.
I was half-asleep when I heard a new noise under the sledge.
Fouquet had just retired to his room, still smiling, but more than half-asleep.
Allan was half-asleep, or what did instead, in one of his abstracted moods.
His words, though only muttered, awaken Cypriano, still only half-asleep.
She was half-asleep when I went in, dreaming as it seemed, and pleasantly.
They had seen him leaning against the cart as if half-asleep.
There was no skurrying of rabbits, or twitter of the half-asleep birds.
c.1200, aslepe, o slæpe, from Old English on slæpe (see sleep). The parallel form on sleep continued until c.1550. Of limbs, "numb through stoppage of circulation," from late 14c. Meaning "inattentive, off guard" is from mid-14c.
asleep a·sleep (ə-slēp')
adj.
In a state of sleep; sleeping.
Numb, as of a limb.
Dead.
In or into a state of sleep.
In or into a state of apathy or indifference.
Into the sleep of the dead.
