slumberous
adjective
sleepy; heavy with drowsiness, as the eyelids.
slumberously
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a word derived from
slumberous.
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
A barrel-organ droned slumberously from the other side of the square, while to his ears, so long attuned to country silences or the quick, intermittent music of nature, the ceaseless roar of London became burdensome.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Lucas Malet
I remembered him on a brighter trip in summer-time when I was a good deal younger and took the languors of the voyage less slumberously.
From Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales by Arthur Shearly Cripps
The tea-roses on the huge bush, faint in the heat, dropped slumberously from their stems.
From A Love Episode by Émile Zola
"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 William John Locke
