somniferous
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Everyone was back in the Dolby Theatre, a welcome return after last year’s somniferous experiment from Steven Soderbergh, which was held in Los Angeles’s Union Station.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2022
Still, it’s a somniferous situation for the photographers, who camp out in their cars for hours at a time for a few seconds of activity.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2019
This somniferous influence, which is to some extent exercised by local electrization, is here distinguished by its far greater constancy as well as by its greater degree of perfection.
From The Electric Bath by George M. Schweig
The poppy, from its somniferous effects, has been made symbolic of sleep and oblivion; hence Virgil calls it the Lethean poppy, whilst our old pastoral poet, William Browne, speaks of it as "sleep-bringing poppy."
From The Folk-lore of Plants by T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer
Agnes laid down beside him, and, patting him gently on the cheek, she sang in a sleepy sort of way, hoping the tone of her voice would have a somniferous effect.
From Lewie Or, The Bended Twig by Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins) Bradford
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