sleepily

Example Sentences

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HONOLULU—My roommates woke up, one by one, at sunrise last week, zipping open their suitcases and sleepily walking to the bathroom.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

“Mom,” she said as she looked up sleepily, “can you give me my Cheerios?”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2024

Husam Abdelgawi, a 31-year-old accountant in the Libyan city of Derna, got up and went sleepily downstairs to check on them, and felt water under his feet.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2023

The Metropolitan Opera orchestra’s uneven, season-ending concert at Carnegie Hall on Thursday had a sleepily evergreen theme: Shakespeare.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2023

She was sleepily aware of his presence and in one of her rare impulses of affection, she threw her arm across his chest.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith