fall asleep

Example Sentences

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She’d chugged a Red Bull, which she never did, and couldn’t fall asleep.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

Mercurial and unreliable in the studio, Stewart would sometimes fall asleep on the couch during recording sessions or lie down in the vocal booth.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

He added: "Just the fact that I found it so normal, in a sad way, that it was okay to just put my head on the pillow and fall asleep."

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

Because of this shift, many teens cannot fall asleep early enough to get sufficient rest before school.

From Science Daily • Mar. 11, 2026

The girl ran away and lived with dwarves, but the witch-queen found her out and fed her a poisoned apple—one that would make her fall asleep forever.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff