sleepy
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This internal timing system influences when the body feels awake or sleepy over each roughly 24-hour cycle.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
Just as they did in Beethoven's time, euphoric revellers still spill out onto the paths of the otherwise sleepy outskirts in the vine-lined Viennese hillsides after a few carafes of white- or red-wine spritzers.
From Barron's ● Jul. 26, 2026
Instead, it seemed to wake the herbs up, sharpening their edges and giving the whole thing just enough brightness to keep the carbs from feeling sleepy.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
When it is hot, feeling sleepy can be precious - save it for bedtime.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
An outline of the boot-shaped state pulsed on the thick paper, its sprawling cities and sleepy towns and rural outposts gleaming and glittering.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
After next week, deal flow may slow during the usually sleepier months of July and August and pick back up again after Labor Day.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
As a shopping event, the day itself is sleepier, and the deals are available much longer.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 26, 2025
With sleep compression, you can also stop, or reverse course and extend time in bed again, if you start to feel sleepier during the day.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2025
While December remains a sleepier month for new book releases than other times of the year, December 2024 offers quite a few terrific titles, so many that it was difficult to choose among them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2024
But as she was sleepier than any of them—she’d been rubbing her eyes for an hour—she consented to adjourn the meeting.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
When the sleepiest central bank on Earth becomes the one that matters, the plot has thickened.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 28, 2026
"It is fair to say that this connection, prior to the war in Ukraine, was one of the sleepiest links between North Korea and its two neighbours," said Cha.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
Time of day factors in because of our biological clocks; we’re sleepiest late at night and early in the morning.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2025
But in those places, it’s hard to remain grounded in the state’s soft beauty, most easily admired in its sleepiest spots like its fair capital city, Sacramento.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2025
It was the hottest, sleepiest hour of the afternoon.
From "1984" by George Orwell
