drowse
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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."
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
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 American cast keeps its English accents tidy but not its performances, and Director Alan Schneider lets the first act drowse.
From Time Magazine Archive
I drowse from the exhaustion of holding myself up on the jerking train.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 9
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