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

One thing they have in common is a mastery in describing light in particular and optical phenomena in general; another is their inclination to evoke in-between states: drowsing, dreams, epiphanies, hallucinations.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2015

There was so much braid, and here she lay drowsing.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck