somniferous
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Everyone was back in the Dolby Theatre, a welcome return after last year’s somniferous experiment from Steven Soderbergh, which was held in Los Angeles’s Union Station.
From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2022
Still, it’s a somniferous situation for the photographers, who camp out in their cars for hours at a time for a few seconds of activity.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2019
About 15% sleep less than 6� hours, and a somniferous 15% slumber on for more than � hours.
From Time Magazine Archive
Night otherwise fallen dark and somniferous to modern mankind.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 11 by Carlyle, Thomas
The princess, put to sleep by Horpyna with a decoction of somniferous herbs, did not wake; her eyelids merely trembled a little from the light of the torch.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Sienkiewicz, Henryk
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