Sentence examples for long asleep from inspiring English sources

"We thought the boys would be long asleep".

I go out at 2am, they'll be long asleep by then".

Bobbing there in the water, I experienced the helpless, hapless feeling one has when he leaves for a hectic day of work before sunrise, knowing full well that he won't return home until his family is long asleep.

The U.S. government, long asleep at the switch, is finally taking more serious action, other than the human trafficking legislation.

And, tonight, after I stop writing this story, I'll send our dog, Spanky, out the front door to "powder his nose," I'll turn off the lights downstairs -- and kiss my girls goodnight -- who will be long, long asleep.

He was on his first trip to Sundance -- or to the U.S., for that matter -- and said he constantly felt like he was playing catch-up to his publication, where his editors were long asleep by the time he finished his day).

For Ms. Lagunas, Christmas is not Christmas if it does not have her homemade tamales, even if it means getting up before the sun or going to bed after the rest of the house has long fallen asleep.

One or two of his other wartime studies present the front line as a place in which young men lay around in twos and threes, naked and in long grass, asleep as often as not.

Before long, she was asleep most of the time.

She determined to ask Max when he came to bed but fell asleep long before.

The poor painter found a shabby couch in a corner, collapsed on it, and for the first time in a long while fell asleep on a soft surface.