DROWSE in a Sentence

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10 example sentences for DROWSE, such as:

1. She now and then drowsed away into a half sleep.
2. Fatigue bore so heavily upon Becky that she drowsed off to sleep.
3. I reached out to him in the dark, still in a partial drowse in fact, thinking, Why did she wake up her mate?
4. The summer air, the restful quiet, the odor of the flowers, and the drowsing murmur of the bees had had their effect.
5. The drowsing murmur of the five and twenty studying scholars soothed the soul like the spell that is in the murmur of bees.

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 Meanings and Examples of DROWSE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
drowse
 v.  sleep imperfectly or unsoundly; slumber; be heavy with sleepiness; doze.
Classic Sentence:
1  They lurched to the highroad and awoke from their sun-soaked drowse at the sound of the clopping hoofs.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  The drowsing murmur of the five and twenty studying scholars soothed the soul like the spell that is in the murmur of bees.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
3  They gradually wandered apart, dropped into the "dumps," and fell to gazing longingly across the wide river to where the village lay drowsing in the sun.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
4  I'm a match for any of 'em--the chits you dally with, and bid me meet you at the Orange Tree when you're drowsing the night off spent in their arms.'
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
5  Fatigue bore so heavily upon Becky that she drowsed off to sleep.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Example Sentence:
1  I reached out to him in the dark, still in a partial drowse in fact, thinking, Why did she wake up her mate?
2  The summer air, the restful quiet, and the drowsing murmur of the bees had had their effect, and she was nodding over her knitting -- for she had no company but the cat, and it was asleep in her lap.
3  The summer air, the restful quiet, the odor of the flowers, and the drowsing murmur of the bees had had their effect.
4  She now and then drowsed away into a half sleep.