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drowsy

[drou-zee] / ˈdraʊ zi /


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Upon arriving home, the complaint states, C.K. was extremely drowsy, lethargic and irritable.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 8, 2026

A team that had never won so much as nine straight games during the drowsy regular season suddenly rattled off 13 straight victories in the playoffs.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 14, 2026

For example, Samsara’s cameras used in delivery trucks can help determine when a driver is distracted or drowsy, and deliver real-time alerts.

From Barron's Jun. 11, 2026

Despite the substantial harm caused by drowsy driving, “it’s still culturally accepted, which is a problem,” says Joseph Dzierzewski, senior vice president of research at the National Sleep Foundation.

From Slate Nov. 26, 2025

I guessed it was because right then, Liana and Ainsley were walking by, giving us a drowsy Monday sort of wave as they entered homeroom.

From "Maybe He Just Likes You" by Barbara Dee

But because Iridium was only a near-failure and not a total one, it’s also a peculiar — and drowsier — turnaround story.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2016

The volunteers still felt drowsier in the afternoon.

From BBC Oct. 29, 2014

After that, the show became a kind of dinner-theater version of itself -- flaccid, repetitious, drowsier than the Texas economy -- and receded discreetly into the haze of Has-Been.

From Time Magazine Archive

Philip grew drowsier and drowsier, till Viola stole in and led him away, "walking asleep."

From The Wishing-Ring Man by Margaret Widdemer

And while I looked, I grew drowsier and drowsier; my eyes would close, then half open, and there would be the hantu sails and the fire for company, growing more and more indistinct.

From The Spinner's Book of Fiction by Various

“Ma Belle, My Beauty” comes pre-drenched in the languid pleasures of late summer; for anyone looking for a respite from and a celebration of the season’s drowsiest dog days, it works a trick.

From Washington Post Aug. 24, 2021

Up India's Hooghly River one day last February sailed a weird vessel which made even the drowsiest citizens rub their eyes.

From Time Magazine Archive

A man who thinks much about success must be the drowsiest sentimentalist; for he must be always looking back.

From What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

“Oh! not yet, mother,” groaned the youth in the drowsiest of accents; “I’ve only just begun to sleep.”

From Red Rooney The Last of the Crew by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Patzcuaro is one of the laziest, drowsiest, most delightful pimples on the earth to be found in a long search.

From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Harry Alverson Franck




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