SOMNOLENT in a Sentence

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1. A lazy somnolence descended on the crowd.
2. The heavy meal and the overheated room made us all somnolent and indifferent to the speaker.
3. The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their arrival, in terrified somnolence.
4. In an instant, the somnolence had fled from the lounging throng and something electric went snapping through the air.
5. Clym stepped before her into the passage, and Eustacia waited, her somnolent manner covering her inner heat and agitation.

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 Meanings and Examples of SOMNOLENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
somnolent
 a.  half asleep; inclined to drowsiness; tending to induce sleep
Classic Sentence:
1  Clym stepped before her into the passage, and Eustacia waited, her somnolent manner covering her inner heat and agitation.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 4 Rough Coercion Is Employed
2  The droning voice of the professor continued to wind itself slowly round and round the coils it spoke of, doubling, trebling, quadrupling its somnolent energy as the coil multiplied its ohms of resistance.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  A lazy somnolence descended on the crowd.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  In an instant, the somnolence had fled from the lounging throng and something electric went snapping through the air.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  A heavy warm somnolence lay over the house, as if it slept at ease like the girls, until night when it would burst into its full beauty with music and candle flames.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
6  They were activities which, beside those of a town, a village, or even a farm, would have appeared as the ferment of stagnation merely, a creeping of the flesh of somnolence.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 1 Tidings of the Comer
7  The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their arrival, in terrified somnolence.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE
Example Sentence:
1  The heavy meal and the overheated room made us all somnolent and indifferent to the speaker.