soporific

Example Sentences

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For all that the occasional grand prix can be soporific, and for all many drivers expect this one to be, a race can go awry in many more ways than it can go well.

From BBC

McDermott’s childhood memories are matched by naïvely excited music; the flotation tank, by a soporific étude; the simulated coma, by music so shapeless yet alluring that it could have been written by Satie.

From New York Times

But at the time I recall thinking perhaps Biden's soporific tendencies were a good thing.

From Salon

Music for children is often dismissed as either simple and silly or simple and soporific.

From New York Times

But tryptophan has to cross the blood-brain barrier to have any soporific effects, and in the presence of other amino acids found in food it ends up competing, largely unsuccessfully, for absorption.

From New York Times