drowsy

The tunes and chord changes fail to lodge in memory even after repeated listens, hooks don’t land, and tempos are generally drowsy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

For example, Samsara’s cameras used in delivery trucks can help determine when a driver is distracted or drowsy, and deliver real-time alerts.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

Legislation could help to penalize drowsy driving—the only form of legal impaired driving—though enforcement would be difficult.

From Slate ● Nov. 26, 2025

"My baby became excessively drowsy, fed poorly and subsequently developed complications."

From BBC ● May 2, 2025

For the first minute or two, he lay in drowsy security, not remembering.

From "Gregor the Overlander" by Suzanne Collins

But because Iridium was only a near-failure and not a total one, it’s also a peculiar — and drowsier — turnaround story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2016

The volunteers still felt drowsier in the afternoon.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2014

After that, the show became a kind of dinner-theater version of itself -- flaccid, repetitious, drowsier than the Texas economy -- and receded discreetly into the haze of Has-Been.

From Time Magazine Archive

No man can say that the feelings of the animal are not represented by a drowsier consciousness in the vegetable world.

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall

They had give him ether or somethin' and so he kept gettin' drowsier and drowsier, and finally died in his sleep.

From Mitch Miller by John Sloan

“Ma Belle, My Beauty” comes pre-drenched in the languid pleasures of late summer; for anyone looking for a respite from and a celebration of the season’s drowsiest dog days, it works a trick.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2021

Up India's Hooghly River one day last February sailed a weird vessel which made even the drowsiest citizens rub their eyes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nevertheless, there was enough in the state of the world, and in the position of England, to have furnished abundance of conscious motive, and to have stirred the drowsiest routinier statesman.

From Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc by Hilaire Belloc

It was in the drowsiest time in the afternoon.

From The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall

It stands mid-way up a well-wooded hill, about two and a half miles from a dreamy, drowsy old village, in one of the dreamiest, drowsiest nooks of bonnie, tree-clad Berkshire.

From O'er Many Lands, on Many Seas by Gordon Stables