Example Sentences

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The entire season moves along sleekly — you could say somnolently — at the same measured pace, with the same arch tone and on the same note of muted, stylish apprehension.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2024

That summer, anti-tourism protesters lined the waterfront, standing knee-deep in the Mediterranean bearing banners reading “this is not a beach resort,” in English, in the face of bikini-clad visitors who were somnolently tanning themselves.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 22, 2019

Later, when I sat him up on my lap, his head dropped somnolently forward and he curled into a ball.

From New York Times • May 23, 2012

In the outer office of the Rumanian Ministry of Agriculture, last week, clerks and undersecretaries pottered somnolently at their tasks.

From Time Magazine Archive

"True!" she said, in the low tone of an almost somnolently brooding calm.

From Old Crow by Brown, Alice