somnolent

How to use somnolent in a sentence

• But abruptly it intruded around corners when least expected after scenes of rural somnolence had lulled us.

  As the Key Battle Looms, a Report from Ukraine's Front Lines | Jamie Dettmer | August 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

• In Manhattan, every neighborhood that once sang to the creative and sexual soul has been tamped down into generic somnolence.

  Cliff Lee Signs With the Phillies: Get Over It, New York | Buzz Bissinger | December 15, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST

• She is well educated, intelligent, with good memory and spirits, and has no tendency to depression or somnolence.

  A Statistical Inquiry Into the Nature and Treatment of Epilepsy | Alexander Hughes Bennett

• How long had he been subjected to this delicious somnolence, without name in our language?

  The Guide of the Desert | Gustave Aimard

• If we must go out at unusual hours to get it, we shall go, in spite of after-dinner nap or evening somnolence.

  Pages From an Old Volume of Life | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.