somnolent
adjective
sleepy; drowsy.
somnolency
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a word derived from
somnolent.
Example Sentences
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There was a man named Hibbets in our party, who, from his habits of somnolency, had earned the sobriquet of “Sleepy-head.”
From The Scalp Hunters by F.A. Stewart
Taking example by the guide, I gave way to a kind of painful somnolency, during which I seemed both to hear and feel continued heavings and shudderings in the mountain.
From A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
Then I gave myself infinite credit for the pertinacity of my silence, and for the manner in which I had put on an appearance of somnolency without overacting the part.
From The Fixed Period by Anthony Trollope
Weeng is the spirit of somnolency in the lodge stories.
From The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
In Mr. Belcher's present condition of self-complacency and somnolency, she was not a welcome visitor.
From Sevenoaks by J. G. (Josiah Gilbert) Holland
