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sleepiness

How to use sleepiness in a sentence

A feeling of lassitude possesses me, my feet drag heavily, and I experience great difficulty in mastering my sleepiness.

We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness.

Lippo's voice sounded dreadfully weak, but he sang every note to the last word, fighting mightily against his growing sleepiness.

MAEZLIJOHANNA SPYRI

He saw her face, and the dim light, and the sleepiness was suddenly gone from him.

At times Tad found himself drooping in his saddle as his sleepiness overcame him.

Rehim Ali cannot keep himself awake any longer, and Shukkur Ali is very comical in his overpowering sleepiness.

"Good night, grandmother dear," said Molly, in a voice which tried hard to be brisk as usual through the sleepiness.

He chatted cheerfully until eleven o'clock before showing any signs of sleepiness.

In her sleepiness the night before, she had fastened her strings to a large twig that grew out of the ground beside her bed!

It was very difficult to steer clear between Mrs. Forrester's deafness and Mrs. Jamieson's sleepiness.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985