drowsy

Studies of healthcare workers suggest that even a 20-to-50-minute nap during or after a shift improves focus and reduces drowsy driving on the way home.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

A team that had never won so much as nine straight games during the drowsy regular season suddenly rattled off 13 straight victories in the playoffs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

For example, Samsara’s cameras used in delivery trucks can help determine when a driver is distracted or drowsy, and deliver real-time alerts.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

Despite the substantial harm caused by drowsy driving, “it’s still culturally accepted, which is a problem,” says Joseph Dzierzewski, senior vice president of research at the National Sleep Foundation.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2025

There followed drowsy days and nights that ran together, a ceaseless roaring in the ears.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes

But because Iridium was only a near-failure and not a total one, it’s also a peculiar — and drowsier — turnaround story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2016

The volunteers still felt drowsier in the afternoon.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2014

After that, the show became a kind of dinner-theater version of itself -- flaccid, repetitious, drowsier than the Texas economy -- and receded discreetly into the haze of Has-Been.

From Time Magazine Archive

The moving flare that ringed The escutcheoned hearse, lit every leaf distinct Along the hedges and woke the sleeping birds, But drew no watchers from the drowsier farms.

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Alfred Noyes

They had give him ether or somethin' and so he kept gettin' drowsier and drowsier, and finally died in his sleep.

From Mitch Miller by John Sloan

“Ma Belle, My Beauty” comes pre-drenched in the languid pleasures of late summer; for anyone looking for a respite from and a celebration of the season’s drowsiest dog days, it works a trick.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2021

Up India's Hooghly River one day last February sailed a weird vessel which made even the drowsiest citizens rub their eyes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Life of Huxley," while the softest, drowsiest nest song, "Tweety-tweet!

From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Katharine Lee Bates

A rooster crows somewhere far off—surely of all sounds the drowsiest.

From There's Pippins and Cheese to Come by Charles S. (Charles Stephen) Brooks

Patzcuaro is one of the laziest, drowsiest, most delightful pimples on the earth to be found in a long search.

From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Harry Alverson Franck