How to Use drowsy in a Sentence

drowsy

adjective

• We spent a drowsy afternoon by the pool.
• There are ways to make the most of a drowsy start to the day.
  — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 3 May 2023
• Just a whiff of ether is enough to make one feel drowsy, and a little more can knock you out.
  — Discover Magazine, 30 Oct. 2013
• Back at Krystal, a drowsy fan began to nod off in the front window.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 14 Jan. 2020
• Over half of those found by the AAA study to be involved in drowsy driving crashes were between the ages of 16 and 24.
  — Paul A. Eisenstein, NBC News, 8 Feb. 2018
• At this point, putting your baby to bed drowsy but awake can help encourage him to sleep through the night.
  — Craig Canapari, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
• Still very much a working market town, Mahón felt drowsy.
  — Raphael Kadushin, WSJ, 25 July 2017
• After the drowsy, dark opening third, Jill wakes up and so does the movie, bathed in bright colors and L.A. sunlight.
  — Gary Thompson, Philly.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Not getting enough sleep does much more than leave you feeling drowsy the next morning.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
• My sister’s face was drowsy, eyes half-lidded, her cheeks and nose flushed with sunburn.
  — Mary Grimm, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
• In my drowsy haze of half-slumber, the temptation to surrender was strong.
  — Hoda Sherif, TIME, 10 May 2024
• Each child would receive vaccinations, making some feel drowsy and sick in the days to come.
  — Aaron Leibowitz, miamiherald, 11 July 2018
• When the girls grew drowsy they were hoisted back onto the bikes, each sandwiched between two male riders.
  — The Economist, 4 Nov. 2017
• Just as the poster and the trailer give little away, there is a drowsy slowness to the first half-hour of the film as the crew awake from hypersleep to answer a distress call.
  — J.b., The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• Our young visitor wore teal footie pajamas and looked at us with drowsy eyes.
  — Gina Rich, Travel + Leisure, 25 Sep. 2023
• But motifs of blue whales flying above piers to tattoos on movie stars work to defy drowsy stereotypes.
  — Danielle Fox, ELLE Decor, 29 May 2018
• In the waiting area, Beth Arcail nestled a drowsy Elliana into her stroller.
  — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 16 Dec. 2017
• But critics of the stop-the-clock idea said that would result in a 17-hour work window, heightening the risk of drowsy driving and accidents.
  — Richard Lardner, Twin Cities, 1 July 2019
• Now, drowsy, sprawling McCordsville is trying to settle the type of noise dispute more common in dense big cities.
  — John Tuohy, Indianapolis Star, 22 June 2018
• Both Coopers were then in their 20s and living at their parents’ home in the Cotswolds, a scenic and drowsy region in southwest England, a place all their peers had left.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2020
• Though the Looff carousel remains splendidly vivid, the rest of Slater Park projects a shabby gentility, a drowsy grandeur.
  — Michael Tortorello, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
• On her third visit, police say the suspect and her daughter offered the victim a cupcake which made the victim feel numb and drowsy.
  — Amanda Watts, CNN, 15 Feb. 2020
• Last year, Iowa hosted the first statewide drowsy driving summit to increase public awareness of the problem.
  — Jenni Bergal, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2017
• But Tigertail is also a lot of things The Farewell isn't: drowsy, shambolic, underthought.
  — Inkoo Kang, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2020
• The final score didn’t count in the standings and the Coliseum, at first glance, could not have been more than half-full on a warm, drowsy August afternoon.
  — David Wharton, latimes.com, 3 Sep. 2017
• Don't drive while impaired, which includes drowsy driving.
  — Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 29 Aug. 2022
• His voice is a drowsy, dehydrated thing, as if he’s been hitting snooze for 45 minutes after a rough night out.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
• The chair looks much like any other office chair but, in that drowsy after-lunch hour the back reclines all the way down, and extra leg-supports flip out from under the seat squab.
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2010
• Driving while drowsy, or distracted, or with a noisy child in the back seat, is at least as dangerous as that, and driving while using a hands-free cell phone is much more dangerous.
  — Mark A. R. Kleiman, Foreign Affairs, 28 June 2018
• This can cause your baby to become drowsy, excitable, or even irritable.
  — Sherri Gordon, Parents, 9 July 2024

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024