Example Sentences

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All across the ravaged Earth, the cracked foundations of the twentieth century were drowsing, waking, and recognizing themselves.

From Slate • Nov. 28, 2020

Late one night the drowsing pro got a phone call at home.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 17, 2020

While summer often wakes me at 4am with dawn, in winter I can sleep for hours, surrendering to my bed shortly after 9pm, and drowsing there until my morning alarm.

From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 2020

“Lot less, lot less than before,” said a bus agent, who declined to give his name, at the open-air Sonef station in Niamey, drowsing and empty in the late-afternoon heat.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2018

Long before ni-Frith, all were drowsing in the undergrowth.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams