drowse
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Once ashore, the voyagers were soon far too busy to lose themselves in the drowse of flowers.
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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.
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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."
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The American cast keeps its English accents tidy but not its performances, and Director Alan Schneider lets the first act drowse.
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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
Vocabulary lists containing drowse
Tolkien Reading Day, List 9
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Charlotte's Web
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Festival of Sleep Day
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