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
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."
From Time Magazine Archive
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
The next morning I blearily awoke after two hours of sleep, bundled myself onto one of the wagons and proceeded to drowse away the morning.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Wrinkled as a crone, it drowses and yawns, never really wakes or sleeps soundly, sucks weakly, is capable of a faint squeak, grunt, bleat or wail.
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
Result: Blithe Spirit is surfeited with dialogue, now & again drowses slightly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hot sun fries the big stadium at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La. The track meet drowses through the sweet tedium of late afternoon.
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
Headed for the Dardanelles assault in 1915, Brooke got septicemia from a lip infection, drowsed off in a fever on shipboard and was buried on the Aegean island of Skyros.
From Time Magazine Archive
At last wearied with his cares Sam drowsed, leaving the morrow till it came; he could do no more.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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
Then I was in motion, drowsing on a bus, a grizzled figure seated beside me, Calvin Schiraldi again.
From Salon ● Jun. 20, 2015
She was just drowsing, but Tom Yew was snoring.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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