How to Use drowsy in a Sentence

drowsy

adjective
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  • We spent a drowsy afternoon by the pool.
  • There are ways to make the most of a drowsy start to the day.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 3 May 2023
  • Just a whiff of ether is enough to make one feel drowsy, and a little more can knock you out.
    — Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2013
  • Back at Krystal, a drowsy fan began to nod off in the front window.
    — Michael Casagrande | McAsagrande@al.com, al, 14 Jan. 2020
  • Over half of those found by the AAA study to be involved in drowsy driving crashes were between the ages of 16 and 24.
    — Paul A. Eisenstein, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2018
  • At this point, putting your baby to bed drowsy but awake can help encourage him to sleep through the night.
    — Craig Canapari, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
  • Still very much a working market town, Mahón felt drowsy.
    — Raphael Kadushin, WSJ, 25 July 2017
  • After the drowsy, dark opening third, Jill wakes up and so does the movie, bathed in bright colors and L.A. sunlight.
    — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Not getting enough sleep does much more than leave you feeling drowsy the next morning.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
  • My sister’s face was drowsy, eyes half-lidded, her cheeks and nose flushed with sunburn.
    — Mary Grimm, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
  • Each child would receive vaccinations, making some feel drowsy and sick in the days to come.
    — Aaron Leibowitz, miamiherald, 11 July 2018
  • When the girls grew drowsy they were hoisted back onto the bikes, each sandwiched between two male riders.
    — The Economist, 4 Nov. 2017
  • Just as the poster and the trailer give little away, there is a drowsy slowness to the first half-hour of the film as the crew awake from hypersleep to answer a distress call.
    — J.b., The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Our young visitor wore teal footie pajamas and looked at us with drowsy eyes.
    — Gina Rich, Travel + Leisure, 25 Sep. 2023
  • But motifs of blue whales flying above piers to tattoos on movie stars work to defy drowsy stereotypes.
    — Danielle Fox, ELLE Decor, 29 May 2018
  • In the waiting area, Beth Arcail nestled a drowsy Elliana into her stroller.
    — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 16 Dec. 2017
  • But critics of the stop-the-clock idea said that would result in a 17-hour work window, heightening the risk of drowsy driving and accidents.
    — Richard Lardner, Twin Cities, 1 July 2019
  • Now, drowsy, sprawling McCordsville is trying to settle the type of noise dispute more common in dense big cities.
    — John Tuohy, Indianapolis Star, 22 June 2018
  • Both Coopers were then in their 20s and living at their parents’ home in the Cotswolds, a scenic and drowsy region in southwest England, a place all their peers had left.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2020
  • Though the Looff carousel remains splendidly vivid, the rest of Slater Park projects a shabby gentility, a drowsy grandeur.
    — Michael Tortorello, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
  • On her third visit, police say the suspect and her daughter offered the victim a cupcake which made the victim feel numb and drowsy.
    — Amanda Watts, CNN, 15 Feb. 2020
  • Last year, Iowa hosted the first statewide drowsy driving summit to increase public awareness of the problem.
    — Jenni Bergal, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2017
  • But Tigertail is also a lot of things The Farewell isn't: drowsy, shambolic, underthought.
    — Inkoo Kang, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The final score didn’t count in the standings and the Coliseum, at first glance, could not have been more than half-full on a warm, drowsy August afternoon.
    — David Wharton, latimes.com, 3 Sep. 2017
  • Don't drive while impaired, which includes drowsy driving.
    — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 29 Aug. 2022
  • His voice is a drowsy, dehydrated thing, as if he’s been hitting snooze for 45 minutes after a rough night out.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
  • The chair looks much like any other office chair but, in that drowsy after-lunch hour the back reclines all the way down, and extra leg-supports flip out from under the seat squab.
    — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2010
  • In the first two, Lage and Eldridge pass remarks back and forth, sometimes briskly and sometimes thoughtfully, and the third is a sly and drowsy meditation.
    — Alec Wilkinson, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2017
  • The medication interfered with John Spears' diabetes and made him drowsy, his wife told the court.
    — Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com, 15 June 2017
  • Alprazolam, the brand name of which is Xanax, is a benzodiazepine and can make someone drowsy.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2023

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