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

On July 10, the day before the wind changed, the fire had been burning sleepily for a week without any apparent cause for alarm.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 24, 2025

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

I slump down sleepily, the surgery and the pain meds finally overtaking me.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott