drowse

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

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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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Once ashore, the voyagers were soon far too busy to lose themselves in the drowse of flowers.

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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