drowsing

How To Use drowsing In A Sentence

• On this later-day Earth, drowsing through the late afternoon of its existence, only a few families of the old orders of hymenoptera and diptera survived in mutated form: most dreadful of these were the tigerflies. HOTHOUSE
• Or perhaps my deep sigh stirred her past the edge of drowsing. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
• No cuckoos in Oberlin -- at least none that I have heard - although I did encounter a skunk who was drowsing under my car in the old shed that doubles as a garage behind my house ... you should have seen me run the other way as he woke up!!! Jean's Knitting
• Several weeks after the sculptor finished his statue of Aphrodite drowsing, he sent a messenger to the model asking her to come and visit his hut again.
• Fred gazed slowly at the greying wood buildings, the three or four patient horses drowsing at racks amid clouds of flies, the wagon outside a building labeled ‘Mercantile’ loaded with sacks of flour and sugar.
• Half-drowsing in the train seat as dawn came, I looked out the window at a little sign before a trestle that identified the river it spanned.
• Drowsing on the makeshift pallet, he learns his first lesson of what it means to have money: the rich often endure boredom.
• Davy had walked past the drowsing snake unharmed and was now cornered on the rattler 's far side. HOUR OF THE HUNTER
• it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor
• Passed out this evening on the couch, but didn't sleep all that long, maybe 90 minutes of broken drowsing. January 5th, 2009