somnolent
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Somnolent much of the day, Ms. Borsheim was walking into walls and slumping over at the dinner table.
From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2021
Bush: “The “Scowcroft Award for Somnolent Excellence,” a prize for falling asleep at meetings but recovering quickly enough to make it appear he had been engaged in deep strategic thought.
From Washington Post • Aug. 7, 2020
Somnolent in its pleasant, maple-shaded neighborhoods and moribund elsewhere, Claypool is a place where a visitor is surprised at any conspicuous display of activity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Somnolent conductors gave a shrug when I asked if matters would improve, so at the final pre-Washington stop at New Carrollton, I decided to switch to the Metro and invited the Germans to follow me.
From Washington Post
Somnolent, bare-poled, indifferent, They sleep, and the city sleeps.
From Goblins and Pagodas by Fletcher, John Gould
Vocabulary lists containing somnolent
"The Ransom of Red Chief" by O. Henry
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