drowse
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The American cast keeps its English accents tidy but not its performances, and Director Alan Schneider lets the first act drowse.
From Time Magazine Archive
The town's park benches are crowded with bargain widowers -- husbands who drowse in the sunshine while their wives continue the hunt.
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Once ashore, the voyagers were soon far too busy to lose themselves in the drowse of flowers.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Kearny, N.J., police were inclined to believe Station Attendant Louis Washington's story that he had slept through two burglaries of Red's Trucking Terminal when he fell into a drowse during questioning at police headquarters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even when we went to the beach in the summer he never lay down to drowse in the sun the way I did.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
Up north at Basle in the German-speaking neck of Switzerland drowses a bleak building once the Hotel de I'Univers, today the financial watch tower not only of Europe and Asia but of the entire world.
From Time Magazine Archive
Result: Blithe Spirit is surfeited with dialogue, now & again drowses slightly.
From Time Magazine Archive
He drowses at will in Cabinet meetings, always snaps wide awake when the discussion returns to finance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Caesar landed where Deal now drowses and William the Conqueror made good his bid at Hastings. just beyond the Sussex line.
From Time Magazine Archive
Werner sits in the back of the Opel; Volkheimer drowses on the bench behind him.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
The diary comics of interactions between stick-figure depictions of Wertz and her son, Felix, will resonate with anyone who has ever drowsed through days with a newborn.
From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026
Of the 63 subjects who dropped the glass as they drowsed, 26 did so after they had already passed through N1 sleep.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 3, 2022
After staying up all night at the Stork Club, Mr. Roche drowsed off midway through the early-morning interview.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2019
The second largest corn crop in history drowsed on the fields of Iowa, Illinois and Indiana.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some nights she drowsed, but never for more than an hour.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
All across the ravaged Earth, the cracked foundations of the twentieth century were drowsing, waking, and recognizing themselves.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2020
Late one night the drowsing pro got a phone call at home.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 17, 2020
While summer often wakes me at 4am with dawn, in winter I can sleep for hours, surrendering to my bed shortly after 9pm, and drowsing there until my morning alarm.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 9, 2020
“Lot less, lot less than before,” said a bus agent, who declined to give his name, at the open-air Sonef station in Niamey, drowsing and empty in the late-afternoon heat.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2018
Nina was drowsing on a stool tucked into the corner by the table, Inej’s hand grasped loosely in her own.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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