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sound asleep Meaning of "sound asleep"

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Definition(s):

  • (adj) sleeping deeply

Usage(s):

  1. Like most of Tangshan, Li was sound asleep on July 28, 1976, when an earthquake measuring 7.
  2. Next day, after a Capitol charwoman found him sound asleep in his House office, authorities gave him his freedom on condition that he leave for his Seattle home.
  3. But the timing of the revolt evidently came as a surprise to the ambassador, who was sound asleep in his Maryland home at the time.
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