drowsy
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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
When you eat too much, it can make you drowsy and cause severe stomach upsets, she says.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 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
Piper suspected the noise of the river and the drowsy sound of Achelous’s voice were still affecting her thoughts, but she couldn’t help agreeing with the river god.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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 Noyes, Alfred
As soon as the chunk started blazing the whole place began to grow warmer, and the children grew drowsier.
From Five Little Starrs in the Canadian Forest by Roy, Lillian Elizabeth
“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
It was in the drowsiest time in the afternoon.
From The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons by Marshall, Archibald
A man who thinks much about success must be the drowsiest sentimentalist; for he must be always looking back.
From What's Wrong with the World by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
A rooster crows somewhere far off—surely of all sounds the drowsiest.
From There's Pippins and Cheese to Come by Brooks, Charles S. (Charles Stephen)
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