Sentence examples for seems asleep from inspiring English sources

Except for the occasional desultory exchange of tank and artillery fire, everything seems asleep.

Its Department of Energy, while working diligently on long lead-time alternative energy issues, seems asleep at the switch on real time economic concerns related to the current high price of oil.

Sometimes the board is ultra-responsive and sometimes it seems asleep.

The very houses seem asleep".

It was getting late & the whole school seemed asleep.

That night she was careful to seem asleep when he came in from the restaurant.

A few people strolled by us, but otherwise the lane seemed asleep in the quiet sunshine.

"Dear God, the very houses seem asleep," he mutters to himself, a bit lamely.

Despite numerous indictments of legislators in recent years, for example, the Legislative Ethics Committee has seemed asleep most of the time.

You know, these great, fantastic performances by energetic professors where attendance is miserable and half the students seem asleep.

Maybe that's what keeps them going, keeps them looking, like Mr. Goldblatt's art, both quiet and alert; wide awake even when they seem asleep.