Use "drowse" in a sentence
drowse example sentences
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1. The old man gave Tom some bread and ham, and Tom slowly ate it, sinking back into his drowse
2. To drowse further would have been an abdication; she’d had her eight hours, more or less
3. shout, if it was still there when I had rubbed the drowse out of my head
4. The clack of a lock opening roused Melodía from a restless drowse of fatigue compounded by despair
1. The great wolf drowsed beside her, facing the fire, his huge head sunk on his paws, his ears twitching in his dreams
2. He stared in stupid amazement at the four invaders, unable to understand their presence; dimly remembering that he had drowsed unexplainably on the stair he was guarding and up which they must have come
3. Once it was dawn, seawater was drowsed on the three of them instantly
4. It cast a shower of kindly golden dust on the untidy nurses and decrepit old men who drowsed on the benches; it flickered upon all the moving figures-- on the children who ran screaming along the gravel paths and on everyone who passed through the gardens
5. I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin
6. IN THE MORNING, though, she drowsed as long as she could, and then found a million things to do in her room
7. Watch over him, God, I prayed as I drowsed into sleep
8. Fatigue bore so heavily upon Becky that she drowsed off to sleep
9. The writing instinct, which in the little old town on Manhattan would keep his hand traveling back and forth across the paper for days at a stretch, here languished and drowsed like some heavy-eyed, faintly smiling lotus eater
10. Now I——” And he had already drowsed off into sleep
1. They spent the rest of the day swimming, playing, drowsing in the sun, and eating their supplies
2. Max walked over to the drowsing sentries
3. past apple-orchards where bending boughs were heavily loaded with mellow fruits exhaling fragrant odours, through the cool shades of lofty avenues of venerable oaks, whose overarched and interlacing branches formed a roof of green, gilt and illuminated with quivering spots and shafts of sunlight that filtered through the trembling leaves; over old mossy stone bridges, spanning limpid streams that duplicated the blue sky and the fleecy clouds; and then again, stretching away to the horizon on every side over more fields, some rich with harvest, others filled with drowsing cattle or with flocks of timid sheep that scampered away at the sound of the passing carriages
4. Long before ni-Frith, all were drowsing in the undergrowth
5. a time light seemed the only thing that moved; the sky -- sun, clouds and breeze -- Now came the dog days -- day after day of hot, still summer, when for hours at awake above the drowsing downs
6. Drowsing at long last, Dunk dreamed
7. His head rocked forward and then up like the head of a passenger drowsing on a plane
8. He was drowsing, barely conscious of what she read to him
9. The drowsing murmur of the five and twenty studying scholars soothed the soul like the spell that is in the murmur of bees
10. They gradually wandered apart, dropped into the "dumps," and fell to gazing longingly across the wide river to where the village lay drowsing in the sun
11. ‘Dear Brothers,’ he began, blushing and stammering, with a written speech in his hand, ‘it is not sufficient to observe our mysteries in the seclusion of our lodge- we must act- act! We are drowsing, but we must act
12. After dinner I fell asleep and as I was drowsing off I clearly heard a voice saying in my left ear, ‘Thy day!’
13. Eh? Oh, he had been drowsing, thinking
14. By seven-thirty Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey had pretty well got its tents up and it was time for me and my brother to race back to where the motorcars were unloading the tiny Downey Brothers circus; a miniature version of the large miracle, it poured out of trucks instead of trains, with only ten elephants instead of nearly one hundred, and just a few zebras, and the lions, drowsing in their separate cages, looked old and mangy and exhausted
15. Ah, that is interesting! Jumps into his hand? When he was drowsing?
16. The officer, who was drowsing as he sat on an anchor, rose up and gave the order to let them pass
17. But as soon as it was dusk she returned home, and after having supper with her parents and her brother in the dark outhouse, she went into the hut, healthy and free from care, and climbed onto the oven, where half drowsing she listened to their lodger's conversation
18. “Dear Brothers,” he began, blushing and stammering, with a written speech in his hand, “it is not sufficient to observe our mysteries in the seclusion of our lodge—we must act—act! We are drowsing, but we must act
19. After dinner I fell asleep and as I was drowsing off I clearly heard a voice saying in my left ear, “Thy day!”
20. After the second error everyone was just drowsing off again when a figure cautiously put his head inside the dug-out, and hoarsely said: "'Ere, sergeant, yer might come and 'ave a sniff