drowsing
Example Sentences
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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
John, drowsing in the sunlight, put the toes of his right foot into his mouth and ran them along the place where his teeth were just beginning to come through.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
