drowse
Example Sentences
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Once ashore, the voyagers were soon far too busy to lose themselves in the drowse of flowers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its 2,000 readers supposed that like almost everything else in their quiet, moss-grown city, the Journal would now drowse off to sleep.
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
