fall asleep

Idioms and Phrases

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 .

Example Sentences

These tips will help you fall asleep faster and wake up refreshed.

From The Daily Beast

But they were known for drugging girls and putting cold syrup in big coolers of alcohol so that girls would fall asleep.

From The Daily Beast

Step 11: Return to your living room, and fall asleep as a low-budget cop drama plays on a smallish computer monitor.

From The Daily Beast

Heroin blocks this automation so that when you fall asleep, you stop breathing.

From The Daily Beast

He then pretended to fall asleep during a clip of Lagerfeld explaining how he lost the weight.

From The Daily Beast

If you don't fall asleep under the wheels of a truck you'll be mighty lucky.

From Project Gutenberg

Do not respectable gentlemen fall asleep in their arm-chairs?

From Project Gutenberg

I stretch myself out on the wooden bench, running along the wall of the cell, and at once fall asleep.

From Project Gutenberg

Gale 37 brought her supper and then left her alone to fall asleep early and get as much rest as she could.

From Project Gutenberg

Then everything is confused: I seemed to fall asleep—a long restful sleep, that was broken by my taking a long journey.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bed down
• doze
• languish
• relax
• snooze