somnolent
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Somnolent much of the day, Ms. Borsheim was walking into walls and slumping over at the dinner table.
From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2021
As president, he established the White House’s Scowcroft Award for Somnolent Excellence, a spoof prize honoring the official who could best doze off in a meeting yet still perk up when needed.
From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2018
Somnolent conductors gave a shrug when I asked if matters would improve, so at the final pre-Washington stop at New Carrollton, I decided to switch to the Metro and invited the Germans to follow me.
From Washington Post
Somnolent is the word for the State Department, where one official declared: "This simply isn't a time for action."
From Time Magazine Archive
Somnolent invocation, less somnolent recognition, incipient excitation, catechetical interrogation.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
Vocabulary lists containing somnolent
"The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry
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In Cold Blood
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