Example Sentences

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Whatever one thinks of Reform—and it’s hard to know what to think of it—such an outcome would suggest that Scotland’s era of slumbrous conformity may soon come to an end.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

A man sprawls on a bed, between potted plant and slumbrous dog.

From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2010

In slumbrous, easy-going Siam the gentle comedy of deposing King Prajadhipok as Absolute Monarch and reinstating King Prajadhipok as Constitutional Monarch was wafted to its close last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Guizot, if wheeled from his perch, was expected to be replaced by the smarter and more enterprising Thiers, and slumbrous Duchatel by the broad-chested and beetle-browed Barrot.

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 by Various

The eyes of the lady were dark and slumbrous, but in them was the slightly helpless look of short vision.

From The House of Fulfilment by Martin, George Madden