drowsy

The tunes and chord changes fail to lodge in memory even after repeated listens, hooks don’t land, and tempos are generally drowsy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

For example, Samsara’s cameras used in delivery trucks can help determine when a driver is distracted or drowsy, and deliver real-time alerts.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

Reports say that nearly 1 in 5 fatal crashes in the U.S. involves a drowsy driver, resulting in roughly 6,000 preventable deaths a year.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2025

She values the importance of kindergarten learning, she said, but even without a fever, if her child is drowsy or coughing, he “won’t be paying attention anyway.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2025

Ridge remained in bed, drowsy and running a high fever—102 degrees, in fact.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly

But because Iridium was only a near-failure and not a total one, it’s also a peculiar — and drowsier — turnaround story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2016

The volunteers still felt drowsier in the afternoon.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2014

After that, the show became a kind of dinner-theater version of itself -- flaccid, repetitious, drowsier than the Texas economy -- and receded discreetly into the haze of Has-Been.

From Time Magazine Archive

Without is the infinite expectant hum,—growing drowsier a little.

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

When we were well at table, a horn from the cabins below sounded the reveille for the drowsier workmen.

From The Brick Moon and Other Stories by Edward Everett Hale

“Ma Belle, My Beauty” comes pre-drenched in the languid pleasures of late summer; for anyone looking for a respite from and a celebration of the season’s drowsiest dog days, it works a trick.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2021

Up India's Hooghly River one day last February sailed a weird vessel which made even the drowsiest citizens rub their eyes.

From Time Magazine Archive

But in life there seems a thread of purpose through the least significant; the drowsiest endeavour is not lost, and even the school at Hatiheu may be more useful than it seems.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Patzcuaro is one of the laziest, drowsiest, most delightful pimples on the earth to be found in a long search.

From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Harry Alverson Franck

It was quite evident, even to the drowsiest observation, that Jessica was not promising to wait.

From Many Kingdoms by Elizabeth Garver Jordan