Sample Sentences forsomnolent (editor-reviewed)
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She argues that the organization has grown somnolent and needs shaking up.somnolent = sleepy
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...came a never-to-be-forgotten sound: a low, somnolent buzz, like the sound of hightension wires. (source)somnolent = drowsy (sleepy); or tending to cause drowsiness
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Perry looked at the invalid, still somnolent, dazed, deaf, and he looked at the boy, who returned his gaze calmly, not begging, not "asking for anything," and Perry remembered himself at that age, his own wanderings with an old man. (source)somnolent = drowsy
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Sometimes nothing will rouse her from her bed, from a somnolence that coats the very air she breathes. (source)somnolence = sleepiness
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Even in the profoundest somnolence, people do not tread so deeply into the realm of sleep. (source)somnolence = state of sleep
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An unmarked ornithopter squatted nearby, humming softly on standby like a somnolent insect.† (source)
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Its hushed and somnolent streets became my streets of choice.† (source)
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As yet unchallenged, somnolence continued to cast its shadow over sights and sensations, over forms and formulations, over what has been said and what must be done, lending each the insubstantiality of its domain.† (source)
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In less than half an hour the breathing of Esther became so profound, and, as the Doctor himself might have termed it, so very abstracted, that had he not known how easy it was to ascribe this new instance of somnolency to the powerful dose of opium with which he had garnished the brandy, he might have seen reason to distrust his own prescription.† (source)
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She gazed at him with new approval when she stopped, the lush, responsive tissues of her dark face turning darker still and blooming somnolently with a swelling and beautifying infusion of blood.† (source)
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There are three Smart Aids in Englewood, the small, somnolent beach town where I live.† (source)
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A lazy somnolence descended on the crowd.† (source)
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The babies would chitter and scramble over the indulgent, somnolent bodies of the adults, and nip little bites from the dead animal.† (source)
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Then Fermina Daza saw her town again in the somnolence of two o'clock in the afternoon.† (source)
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He was expecting a series of monosyllables, mere yes's and no's dragged out of her, out of her lethargy and stupor; a series of compelled and somnolent responses to his own firm demands.† (source)
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The somnolence of a hot summer morning descended on us all.† (source)
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