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Example sentences for "half asleep"

  • Oblonsky, half asleep, declined to get up so early.

  • Half asleep, he heard the laughter and mirthful talk of Veslovsky and Stepan Arkadyevitch.

  • If ever he went to the stable, there she was quite alone, half asleep, and yet, on her home journeys going more freely than on her way out, as if longing to be back and lonely in her stable!

  • All day long they stand here under the water, half asleep, sometimes giving a loud grunt or snore, and sometimes, I am sorry to say, tipping over a canoe which happens to float over their heads.

  • She shuts her eyes and falls half asleep, sitting there high upon the camel's back.

  • Half asleep, I know the delights of the lotus-eaters' blessed isle.

  • Not at all," said he, looking up; "but I am half asleep.

  • Whatever your profession, let it be a wakeful one; not one that you can follow half asleep.

  • And when we can do it, we do it without thinking, as if half asleep.

  • This can become especially clear when one is half asleep.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "half asleep" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    considerable degree; failing health; generally called; great scarcity; half acres; half circle; half degrees; half dozen; half dram; half from; half hidden; half inclined; half laughing; half length; half millions; half ounces; half parts; half pint; half rations; half smile; half the; marine products; only thus; priest for ever after the order; recover their; social revolution