drowsy

A team that had never won so much as nine straight games during the drowsy regular season suddenly rattled off 13 straight victories in the playoffs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 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

When you eat too much, it can make you drowsy and cause severe stomach upsets, she says.

From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026

Despite the substantial harm caused by drowsy driving, “it’s still culturally accepted, which is a problem,” says Joseph Dzierzewski, senior vice president of research at the National Sleep Foundation.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2025

No wonder I was feeling drowsy after lunch.

From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney

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

So thinking, so feeling, she grew drowsier, sank deeper—her body tired in every muscle, in every bone—her mind unable to keep awake; and so she faded into the pure rest of sleep.

From The Nine-Tenths by Oppenheim, James

No man can say that the feelings of the animal are not represented by a drowsier consciousness in the vegetable world.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by Tyndall, John

“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

Ez to my gitten in five minits," he began in his laziest, drowsiest manner, "we'll see when the time's up.

From Cressy by Harte, Bret

In me, who had known her for but a little while, she awakened my deepest and drowsiest ambition, the desire to express in pictures the light and the shade of the London I knew.

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by O'Brien, Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington)

Its hideous reveille, clanging through the house, generally startled the drowsiest lodgers into activity, but the maiden would not allow it to be sounded this morning.

From Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates by Dodge, Mary Mapes