Sentence examples for lie asleep from inspiring English sources
"lie asleep" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is usually used in the context of being asleep or resting in a certain place- for example, "He lay asleep in his bed after a long day of work."
First stop for the burgundy group is a bedroom, where two young women lie asleep on a bed.
And certain images tremble on a border between reality and dream: in a leitmotif, children lie asleep in deep foliage, thorn bushes or in the hollowed trunk of a huge tree.
Upstairs the children lie asleep in their beds: I imagine them there, like people sleeping in the cabin of a ship that has sailed off its course, unconscious of the danger they're in.
On the London stage in the mid-fifteen-nineties, Mercutio teased Romeo with this fantastical description of Queen Mab: She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep.
* Half-naked man lying asleep and very sunburnt.
A buffalo-calf, beautiful, lies asleep under the water-tap.
Paula's husband, Mike, lies asleep beside her.
They broke into an isolated house and attacked a large family lying asleep.
Constantine lies asleep, in a tent upon whose draperies shines the arresting light of revelation.
His 5-day-old infant son lay asleep in a harness on his chest.
As Samuel Dalembert lay asleep one night last December, he dreamed of his maternal grandmother, Hyppomene Baptiste.
