fall asleep

phrase

: to begin sleeping

She fell asleep during the movie.

I woke up and I couldn't fall back asleep.

Examples of fall asleep in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Shopify orders for night light projectors, the kind used to help kids fall asleep, shot up by 661%. — Vidhi Choudhary, Fortune, 7 July 2026

Elemind launched commercially in 2024 with a wearable electroencephalogram headband designed to help people fall asleep and fall back to sleep significantly faster without drugs. — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 6 July 2026

That framing changes the design goal from awareness to state change, helping a user fall asleep faster, calm a stressed nervous system or manage a chronic condition in real time. — Samantha Agate, Kansas City Star, 6 July 2026

Neptune, our planet of spirituality and imagination, will fall asleep this week for a long retrograde cycle. — Kyle Thomas, PEOPLE, 5 July 2026

Rhymes for fall asleep

• beep
• cheap
• creep
• deep
• heap
• jeep
• keep
• leap
• peep
• reap
• seep
• sheep