drowse

In Kearny, N.J., police were inclined to believe Station Attendant Louis Washington's story that he had slept through two burglaries of Red's Trucking Terminal when he fell into a drowse during questioning at police headquarters.

From Time Magazine Archive

The town's park benches are crowded with bargain widowers -- husbands who drowse in the sunshine while their wives continue the hunt.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its 2,000 readers supposed that like almost everything else in their quiet, moss-grown city, the Journal would now drowse off to sleep.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the Japanese Diet, Premier Yoshida will often drowse through the opposition speeches, sometimes bestirring himself to deal with questions: "I will not answer that."

From Time Magazine Archive

The next morning I blearily awoke after two hours of sleep, bundled myself onto one of the wagons and proceeded to drowse away the morning.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

He drowses at will in Cabinet meetings, always snaps wide awake when the discussion returns to finance.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wrinkled as a crone, it drowses and yawns, never really wakes or sleeps soundly, sucks weakly, is capable of a faint squeak, grunt, bleat or wail.

From Time Magazine Archive

Up north at Basle in the German-speaking neck of Switzerland drowses a bleak building once the Hotel de I'Univers, today the financial watch tower not only of Europe and Asia but of the entire world.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hot sun fries the big stadium at Southern University in Baton Rouge, La. The track meet drowses through the sweet tedium of late afternoon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Werner sits in the back of the Opel; Volkheimer drowses on the bench behind him.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

The diary comics of interactions between stick-figure depictions of Wertz and her son, Felix, will resonate with anyone who has ever drowsed through days with a newborn.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

Of the 63 subjects who dropped the glass as they drowsed, 26 did so after they had already passed through N1 sleep.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 3, 2022

After staying up all night at the Stork Club, Mr. Roche drowsed off midway through the early-morning interview.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 2, 2019

While Britain drowsed in the propagandist shadows last week, whipped to full speed was Dr. Goebbels' powerful Ministry of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment, which even in peacetime spends some $100,000,000 a year, employs 25,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

At last wearied with his cares Sam drowsed, leaving the morrow till it came; he could do no more.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

All across the ravaged Earth, the cracked foundations of the twentieth century were drowsing, waking, and recognizing themselves.

From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2020

Late one night the drowsing pro got a phone call at home.

From Golf Digest ● Apr. 17, 2020

While summer often wakes me at 4am with dawn, in winter I can sleep for hours, surrendering to my bed shortly after 9pm, and drowsing there until my morning alarm.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 9, 2020

One thing they have in common is a mastery in describing light in particular and optical phenomena in general; another is their inclination to evoke in-between states: drowsing, dreams, epiphanies, hallucinations.

From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2015

The reporters, drowsing in the barn aisles, jumped up when they saw him.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand