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drowsy

[drou-zee] / ˈdraʊ zi /


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Upon arriving home, the complaint states, C.K. was extremely drowsy, lethargic and irritable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

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

The concerning finding here: Drivers didn’t realize that they were becoming drowsy again, even though physiological changes demonstrated that they were.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2025

For the first time, her eyes met Mr. Kapasi’s in the rearview mirror: pale, a bit small, their gaze fixed but drowsy.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

The moving flare that ringed The escutcheoned hearse, lit every leaf distinct Along the hedges and woke the sleeping birds, But drew no watchers from the drowsier farms.

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Alfred Noyes

She held out to him an arm drowsier than her thought.

From The Creators A Comedy by May Sinclair

“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

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

Let money make sunny And power make proud their lives, And feed them and breed them Like drones in drowsiest hives.

From A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne

A man who thinks much about success must be the drowsiest sentimentalist; for he must be always looking back.

From What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton




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