sleepyhead
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sleepyheads
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And it’s me you hear when it goes off … come on now, sleepyhead.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2024
Mr. Davis, no sleepyhead, was out fishing with Native Oscar Otis at 5 the following morning.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was about to begin going over the steps of indirect proof when I heard Danny say, “You’re always sleeping! What a sleepyhead you are!” and I opened my eyes.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
We hadn’t expected to see Reddy Schreiner at such an early hour, for he was always a sleepyhead, and no alarm clock would ever wake him.
From The Scientific American Boy Or, The Camp at Willow Clump Island by A. Russell (Alexander Russell) Bond
Yes, let men call it vulgar, if they will, The trade that thrives while sleeps the sleepyhead; Yes, knavery, not bravery, call it still, To overreach confiding folk a-bed.
From The Little Clay Cart Mrcchakatika by Arthur William Ryder
Let’s say the whole world finally wakes up to the idea that we night owls are more than laggards and sleepyheads.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2018
I’m standing in the Starbucks line behind 10 other sleepyheads, waiting to order my tall skinny cappuccino, otherwise known as a shot of coffee described as I wish to be.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2015
At the centre of the stage is a huge bed; to one side there is a bathroom, into which a procession of sleepyheads troop to make their daily transformations.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2013
A study finds that snoring sleepyheads are twice as likely to suffer a stroke as ordinary snoozers.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were many wonderful things there, but as you're all yawning, and we couldn't make sleepyheads understand, for that you'll have to wait till another night.
From Half-Past Seven Stories by Robert Gordon Anderson
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