Sample sentences for SOPORIFIC

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Definition

tending to make one sleepy

Her lecture put the whole class in a soporific daze.

soporific = tending to make one sleepy

I was determined to eat only such things as could not possibly have anything soporific introduced into them.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Three Musketeers
We go on, with a motion so soporific, so dreamlike as to be uninferant of progress, as though time and not space were decreasing between us and it.
William Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying

soporific = tending to make one sleepy

They certainly had a very soporific effect upon the Flopsy Bunnies!
Potter, Beatrix -- The Original Peter Rabbit Books
All this talk about Shakespeare had acted as a soporific, or rather as an incantation upon Katharine.
Woolf, Virginia -- Night and Day
In them there were no considerations of Mediterranean cruises, of soporific Southern skies drifting in the Vesuvian Bay.
Henry, O. -- The Four Million
When I had read two or three of the small hours away and was as wide awake as ever, I found that a drink furnished the soporific effect.
London, Jack -- John Barleycorn
Evidently soporific substances had been mixed with the food we had just taken.
Verne, Jules -- 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
She lay very still, waiting with a sensuous pleasure for the first effects of the soporific.
Edith Wharton -- The House of Mirth
Eerily, the taped music comes on over the intercom, saccharine, soporific.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
Paul remained silent, probing with his inner senses, examining the blood from the wound, finding a trace of soporific from the Emperor's blade.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
I was determined to eat only such things as could not possibly have anything soporific introduced into them.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
When I pour it on my hair, I feel a sticky cold like dry ice, then a soporific heat.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
I prefer Tasso a good deal, or even the soporific tales of Ariosto.
Voltaire -- Candide
The drums pulsed their steady rhythm, in it's way as much a soporific as the sleepy drone of the bees.
Stephen King -- Misery
"I am going to give up on wine as a soporific and take some of Galen's lethium."
Megan Whalen Turner -- Queen of Attolia
One of his officers then broke the soporific silence of the tent.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude
His eyes did not leave the patron's face while his velvet voice rose passionately above the soporific air of the siesta.
Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
He prayed for a long time, his voice droning, soporific, monotonous.
William Faulkner -- Light in August
It had been a drug, a soporific, in the past, reading them; now, as she turned them over listlessly, she wondered why they had lost their flavor.
Doris Lessing -- The Grass is Singing

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