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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

In the Japanese Diet, Premier Yoshida will often drowse through the opposition speeches, sometimes bestirring himself to deal with questions: "I will not answer that."

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Once ashore, the voyagers were soon far too busy to lose themselves in the drowse of flowers.

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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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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