Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Sound asleep   /saʊnd əslˈip/   Listen
Sound asleep

adjective
1.
Sleeping deeply.  Synonym: fast asleep.  "It would be cruel to wake him; he's sound asleep"






WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Sound asleep" Quotes from Famous Books



... no time. After that he curled himself up under the bear-skin rug, and though he determined to be the most wide-awake boy imaginable, being so exceedingly snug and warm and comfortable, Prince Dolor condescended to shut his eyes just for one minute. The next minute he was sound asleep. ...
— The Little Lame Prince - And: The Invisible Prince; Prince Cherry; The Prince With The Nose - The Frog-Prince; Clever Alice • Miss Mulock--Pseudonym of Maria Dinah Craik

... separate his milk, while Clematis found Deborah sound asleep on the hay, and ready to visit the ...
— Clematis • Bertha B. Cobb

... Bob Ginna had been researching for over a year. Colonel Kirkwood took one long look at the article, sidled up to me, and said, "We'd better get back to Dayton quick; you're going to be busy." The next morning at dawn I was sound asleep on a United ...
— The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects • Edward Ruppelt

... to his couch, where he almost immediately fell sound asleep. After ten minutes or so, when Roy entered to look at his bare heel in the brightness of his flashlight, he was breathing heavily, wrapped in the sleep of utter exhaustion and oblivion. The diagonal mark seen in his foot imprint was plainly noticeable as a scar on his heel. Doc Carson felt his pulse ...
— Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp • Percy Keese Fitzhugh

... you will have to wait, Philpotts, we cannot leave that," she pointed to the child nestling sound asleep by her side. "But I will send or bring you something. This gentleman will perhaps escort me to ...
— The Passenger from Calais • Arthur Griffiths


More quotes...



Copyright © 2024 Free-Translator.com