somniferous
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Everyone was back in the Dolby Theatre, a welcome return after last year’s somniferous experiment from Steven Soderbergh, which was held in Los Angeles’s Union Station.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2022
Still, it’s a somniferous situation for the photographers, who camp out in their cars for hours at a time for a few seconds of activity.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2019
There are a few celebrated ethical compositions, in which the father lavishes upon his son all the treasures of Somali good advice, long as the somniferous sermons of Mentor to the insipid son of Ulysses.
From First Footsteps in East Africa by Sir Richard Francis Burton
It would be a great mistake to think that we should banish from our tables all somniferous articles.
From The Physiology of Taste by Fayette Robinson
It was of a remarkably somniferous character,—the cunning Le Duc had evidently some object in playing thus.
From From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure by Archibald Webb
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