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fall asleep
verb as in sleep
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Occasionally one will actually fall asleep on camera, only to be yelled at by Atlas.
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Or a recent report in the Washington Post about how the president keeps falling asleep during televised events.
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I don’t realize I’ve fallen asleep until Autumn kicks me awake.
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Moments later, a soft snore indicated that she had fallen asleep.
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Cassiopeia, the youngest, had taken a Giddy-Yap, Rainbow! book from the shelf to look at the pictures and had promptly fallen asleep in the rocking chair.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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