DROWSY in a Sentence

Learn DROWSY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

62 example sentences for DROWSY, such as:

1. She was drowsy, hemmed in by the storm.
2. The room is so warm it's making me feel drowsy.
3. She was getting warmer now and a little drowsy.
4. He felt pleasantly drowsy and had to fight off the urge to sleep.
5. The drowsy aloofness had gone from his gray eyes and they were wide and unmasked.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Search Sentence
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of DROWSY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
drowsy
 a.  dull with sleepiness; showing lack of attention
Classic Sentence: (59 in 4 pages)
1  A bright fire glowed in the stove and the cat lay stretched before it, watching the table with a drowsy eye.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  Too often she had surprised him when his eyes were neither drowsy nor remote, when he looked at her with a yearning and a sadness which puzzled her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  Since then, Ashley had sat on a stool at Melanie's feet, apart from the other guests, and talked quietly with her, smiling the slow drowsy smile that Scarlett loved.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  He was not the tall drowsy boy she loved but part and parcel of the Wilkeses, Twelve Oaks, the County--and she hated them all because they laughed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  She was getting warmer now and a little drowsy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
6  Suddenly she thought of Ashley, saw him as vividly as though he stood beside her, sunny haired, drowsy eyed, full of dignity, so utterly different from Rhett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
7  She saw only the same dark loving eyes, sunken and drowsy with death, the same tender mouth tiredly fighting pain for breath.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
8  The drowsy aloofness had gone from his gray eyes and they were wide and unmasked.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
9  She was supposed to be asleep; she was too exquisitely drowsy to break the charm by speaking.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  She was drowsy, hemmed in by the storm.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  As there appeared no change in their drowsy relations, she forgot all about it, and life was planless.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
12  She went into the house, a frail small woman, still winsome but hopeless of eye as she staggered with the weight of the drowsy boy in her arms.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
13  He flapped a drowsy welcoming hand at her from the expanse of quilt and dented pillows.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
14  The tranced ship indolently rolls; the drowsy trade winds blow; everything resolves you into languor.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
15  Ere forgetfulness altogether came over me, I had noticed that the seamen at the main and mizzen-mast-heads were already drowsy.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
Example Sentence:
1  The room is so warm it's making me feel drowsy.
2  He felt pleasantly drowsy and had to fight off the urge to sleep.
3  I confess I began to feel a little drowsy, which is not too surprising considering our five days of hard work.