drowse
verb (used without object)
to be sleepy or half-asleep.
had drowsed
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past perfectof drowse.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Who, in the semblance of Silas Blackburn, had drowsed without food for three days in the house at Smithtown?
From The Abandoned Room by Wadsworth Camp
"Yes, I heerd her," he added, lying; for, being up all the night before, he had drowsed at his post.
From The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox
If the settlement had drowsed, now its inhabitants were busy.
From Key Out of Time by Andre Norton
While we had drowsed through the lazy autumn days, advertising campaigns were shrieking to the people all over the country of the last frontier.
From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Stephen J. Voorhies
July had drowsed into August, and August was burning its sultry way toward September.
From His Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
