Example Sentences

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Manos Hadjidakis' diluted bouzouki score is slumberously unvaried, and no number equals the appeal of the repeated Never on Sunday.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was slumberously stuffy, but comfortingly full of flavours of tobacco and food.

From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

The tea-roses on the huge bush, faint in the heat, dropped slumberously from their stems.

From A Love Episode by Zola, Émile

"I've no doubt Madame Brandt could train him to dance to whatever tune she played," said I. She turned her dark golden eyes lazily, slumberously on me.

From Simon the Jester by Locke, William John

The water was slumberously smooth, and under the tawny haze of the morning it shone with the sheen of burnished brass.

From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Lowell, Percival