Example Sentences

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Many can linger in your system and cause daytime grogginess and falls.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2024

For those who have a hard time resisting longer naps, Rod Mitchell, a Calgary psychologist with expertise in cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, recommends offsetting grogginess with a "coffee nap."

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2023

That grogginess is known as sleep inertia, and it can have negative effects on cognitive alertness and performance.

From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2022

It’s sort of like the economy has woken up after a fitful night’s sleep and it’s still shaking off the grogginess.

From Slate • Jun. 15, 2021

In my grogginess and exhaustion, these conversations became ghoulish.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin