drowsy
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Like Walkden, medication made McCoubrey feel drowsy, nauseous and caused disturbed sleep.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 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
The concerning finding here: Drivers didn’t realize that they were becoming drowsy again, even though physiological changes demonstrated that they were.
From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2025
But the drowsy feeling was coming in waves.
From "Clayton Byrd Goes Underground" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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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
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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
There were drowsier spells in which she lost a feeling of where she was, and these were disturbed by the jolt of wheels over a rough place.
From Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey
“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
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Its hideous reveille, clanging through the house, generally startled the drowsiest lodgers into activity, but the maiden would not allow it to be sounded this morning.
From Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge
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
Nevertheless, there was enough in the state of the world, and in the position of England, to have furnished abundance of conscious motive, and to have stirred the drowsiest minister of routine.
From Short Studies on Great Subjects by James Anthony Froude
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