Sentence examples for drifting to sleep from inspiring English sources

The phrase "drifting to sleep" is grammatically correct and is often used in written English.
It is usually used to describe the feeling of gradually going from being awake to being asleep. For example: After a long day, I felt myself drifting to sleep.

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She smiles, drifting to sleep in the cool night air.

I thought it would be like any disaster scenario I had ever conjured before drifting to sleep: satisfying, but outside of life.

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I like reviewing my day before drifting to sleep -- what could I have said more thoughtfully?

When Jamie was little, he would talk and sing for an hour before drifting to sleep.

How fast can I be by the fireplace, sipping on eggnog and drifting to sleep with the Frank Sinatra Christmas album on repeat?

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The idea, of course, is that you can drift to sleep with music playing.

Back in her room, she quietly bound the wound with a handkerchief and drifted to sleep.

Typically this means she sleeps in cycles of sleep paralysis and jolting awake, but she says she will eventually drift to sleep.

By the time playtime is over, Kensington has drifted to sleep, drunk from the champagne.

These hands have lifted them up before a disaster, soothed a fever, caressed their skin as they drifted to sleep.

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