Idiom
sound asleep
Meaning
Sleeping still and silently.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The baby is sound asleep in the crib.”
“I tried to wake him for dinner, but he was sound asleep after his long flight.”
“Despite the thunder shaking the windows, the exhausted traveler remained sound asleep throughout the entire night.”
Examples
simple
“The baby is sound asleep in the crib.”
contextual
“I tried to wake him for dinner, but he was sound asleep after his long flight.”
complex
“Despite the thunder shaking the windows, the exhausted traveler remained sound asleep throughout the entire night.”
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