[
UK
/dɹˈaʊz/
]
NOUN
- a light fitful sleep
VERB
- sleep lightly or for a short period of time
-
be on the verge of sleeping
The students were drowsing in the 8 AM class
How To Use drowse In A Sentence
- Personally, if the kid does not do anything during the session, if I drowse beside him, I don't care. Chantal Sicile-Kira: French Psychoanalysts Take Legal Action to Ban Film 'The Wall' About Autism
- I meant to get up and insist on being allowed access to the radio, but somehow, I drowsed again.
- From the far edge of her weighted drowse a voice filtered through in blurred staccato bursts. The Temperature of Porridge
- Then the man drowsed off into what seemed to him the most comfortable and satisfying sleep he had ever known. To Build A Fire
- Bemused, she observed that even the horses drowsed quite steadily.
- Nate hummed quietly to the radio and Ally drowsed on my chest.
- She now and then drowsed away into a half sleep.
- I fumbled around for soap, found it, and began washing my arms, eyes half closed as I drowsed in the warmth.
- On them too was the drowse of blood-intimacy, calves sucking and hens running together in droves, and young geese palpitating in the hand while the food was pushed down their throttle. Rereading: The Rainbow by DH Lawrence
- And would you learn the spells that drowse my soul?
