How To Use Sleepily In A Sentence
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Teigue was about to repeat the motion, when one of Marin's eyes slitted open sleepily.
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The boat slips sleepily down the harbour, until it rounds the breakwater and the wind catches its sail.
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Kei groaned as for the third time that morning his hand sleepily fumbled in an attempt to silence the irritating buzz of the battery alarm clock.
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the two children who were snuggled sleepily in the back of the car
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Sleepily, I recalled the events of the night with content reminiscence.
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The air grew full of silence, the birds twittered sleepily, and from afar came, faint and clear, the musical song of the milkmaid calling the kine home to the milking.
The Adventures of Robin Hood
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Ugh, you brutes!" exclaimed Quashy, referring to a number of urubu vultures which stood on the shells, all more or less gorged, some still tearing sleepily at the meat, others standing in apoplectic apathy, quite unable to fly.
The Rover of the Andes A Tale of Adventure on South America
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Five minutes previously, François somnambulated his way into our bedroom with the shark in question (stuffed, of course,) and sleepily piped up "Cats don't eat sharks.
Alex McCord: Cats on Keyboards and Job Hunting Online
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The kitten blinked at him sleepily, like another cat that he knew, and mewled.
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When the moon rose we moved indoors to our beds, still sleepily murmuring.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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Alas, as I sleepily switched the alarm on, I neglected to check that it was set for the right time.
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The bright eye unlidded and gazed at him sleepily.
In the Sweet Dry and Dry
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You'll forget the rambling opening, in which storm clouds sleepily gather for the length of a normal full-length feature.
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Instead, he put his hands behind his head, leaned back and looked at me very calmly, almost sleepily.
SILENT JOE
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He blinked sleepily at me, then realized what he was doing and immediately went into a flurry of apologies and embarrassment.
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The bedding in the winter wanted comfortable warmth to go only, but the summer should get cool, soft, health sleepily , this can raise quite tall requirement to bedding.
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Tom was yawning sleepily, and Lily was already napping peacefully on his skinny shoulder.
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My shriek woke the children, who arrived, sleepily, below the hatch.
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And then there was the little girl, who usually would wake up and in her "nightie" come out of bed and sleepily smile at me and climb on to my knee and nod off again.
Over Prairie Trails
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It looked so hopelessly harmless, the way it was lying around sleepily.
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At times his head would nod sleepily at formal dinners, and he lost the thread of conversations.
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He's only codding you, Yan," said Guy sleepily from his blanket.
Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned
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The waves lapped sleepily at the foot of the cliffs, some 200 feet below us.
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Ian remembered him best lying in his basket beneath the kitchen table, paws clawing sleepily at his pale blue blanket.
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In the harbor of Manhattan, two bargees stirred sleepily last week.
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To get to their house you pass somnolent cows, grazing sleepily amidst green fields, little rivulets, coconut groves and brightly painted houses.
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His hair was tousled, his eyes were heavy and he smiled at her sleepily.
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Did saints ever bat their eyelids and look sleepily self-satisfied as cats?
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Paul Antoine, it's for you," she called sleepily up the stairwell, with a touch of grumpy on the side.
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
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The stream once more drowsed and whispered; the hum of the mountain bees rose sleepily.
All Gold Cañon
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As I got undressed she stirred, came half-awake and sleepily listened to my story about Pat and Paris and broken trains.
MAN AND WIFE
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So sleepily had Chloe's thoughts turned that it was only when Agatha was tying the last strings of her bodice when she remembered that she was to go on a quest with Sir Alaric that day.
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Howard, being awakened by the sound of things happening on deck, got sleepily out of his bunk and headed topsides.
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Several of the 24-hour locksmiths he called sleepily said they no longer offered round-the-clock services.
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He lifted his head in response to his name and sleepily blinked his amber eyes.
Songs of Love & Death
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The sound of ragged, empty breathing passed by her door and Chandra sleepily threw back her covers and clambered out of bed.
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He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight.
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At times his head would nod sleepily at formal dinners, and he lost the thread of conversations.
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I was wrapped in Diogenes' embrace and gazing sleepily at the flames as they danced within the confines of the fire pit.
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She pulled the heavy window shut, drew the curtains, and fell sleepily onto the bed.
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She got in with us and they began talking about the previous night's antics while I listened sleepily.
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I mean --- ' Ellis turned his head and grinned sleepily at her.
TICKLED PINK
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The bedclothes stirred and Auntie smiled sleepily and he climbed up to have cuddles.
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Nirvana of non-existence, and he called sleepily, "What is it?
Caste
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He stared sleepily out the window at the raindrops and started to pull on a pint bottle of urine-yellow muscatel.
The Convict and Other Stories
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He wipes at his eye, rubbing sleep crumbs from his eyelashes and shrugs sleepily.
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Abe," she called sleepily, "know what I've been thinking?
The War with the Newts
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He came back to his place against the wall and stood there, drinking sleepily again.
ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
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The moon was rising, and some mocking-birds in a tangerine tree began to trill sleepily.
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Last night I sleepily was chatting with her and said unsensitive to which she responded "oh right, we say insensitive in English." of course I playfully kicked her, but it was terribly funny anyway.
Lily-white Diary Entry
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Stumbling out of bed, I groped blindly in the darkness for the light switch, flicked it on, and sleepily rubbed gritty, irritating gunk out of my aching eyes.
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I got most of the way through, sleepily agreeing, until I was pulled up by such an ungainsayable falsehood that I was forced to go back and revise my opinion of the rest.
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Sitting up slowly, she pushed hair out of her eyes and glanced sleepily around, her eyes taking in the room a little more thoroughly now that she was coherent.
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She nodded her head sleepily and clutched the backpack to her chest.
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A long stone table dominates the center of this chamber, and bits of gold wink sleepily from the dust that coats the floor.
Session 1: Every New Beginning « Love | Peace | Ohana
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Yet, as I sleepily stretched out to the corners of the four-poster bed, I wondered if I'd achieved the impossible.
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I dawdled by the carriages as the crowds loped sleepily off the train and homewards, frantically scouring the scene for Max.
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She sat up sleepily and in deep dejection dropped her chin wearily in her hands, thinking of the day's chore.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Kris clicked a lead onto his halter, the young pinto thoroughbred following behind Kris sleepily.
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Sleepily we said our last good-byes to the family, took our seats in the droskies, and soon the Hospitalnayah Ulitza was lost to sight.
From Plotzk to Boston
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As we relaxed with our digestifs, sinking further and further into the comfy sofas flanking the crackling warmth of the fire, I sleepily assessed the evening.
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An erotomaniac, Duperret spends most of the play trying to get his hands on Charlotte, a narcoleptic, who sleepily fends off his ham-handing (when she's not unconscious).
