drowse
verb (used without object)
to be sleepy or half-asleep.
is drowsing
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present progressiveof drowse (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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Moving slowly, it picks up the dripping of tapped rubber trees, a thatched hut filled with sleeping natives, another hut hung with drying rubber strips, glides beside a fence to where a pigeon is drowsing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even while it is drowsing in autumn sun-gold, you may still detect a skyward aspiration.
From The Mountains of California by John Muir
Over everything there was a sense of autumn peace which comes when the world is drowsing off into his deep sleep.
From Molly Brown's Freshman Days by Nell Speed
