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sleepy-eyed

ADJECTIVE
  1. ready to fall asleep
    a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids
    beginning to feel sleepy
    sleepyheaded students

How To Use sleepy-eyed In A Sentence

  • a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids
  • Sometimes the men came in from the hunt, a larl or two pacing ahead content and sleepy-eyed, to lean bloody spears against the walls, and it might be that we lived on Old Earth itself then. Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories
  • Wantum coatee," said Mr. Merwin to the sleepy-eyed Oriental who shuffled up with a grunt. More Toasts
  • From the instant I held that small, balding, sleepy-eyed, squalling bundle my life altered.
  • Although her publicity shots present her as a sultry, moody, sleepy-eyed blonde with a slightly sneering, stand-offish expression, Herbert couldn't be more down-to-earth, likeable and friendly.
  • Left behind are dry nipping ambient winds and sleepy-eyed guitars like so many tattered articles of clothing and in their place emerge woolly layers of banjo, children's xylophones, trumpets and home-recorded toy pianos.
  • Here are some other uplifting things: a cycle ride in the sun, coffee in the garden, a sleepy-eyed hello from the cat, which summons up the energy to eat some catty lunch before going for another sleep.
  • Although her publicity shots present her as a sultry, moody, sleepy-eyed blonde with a slightly sneering, stand-offish expression, Herbert couldn't be more down-to-earth, likeable and friendly.
  • We were down on Steamboat Wharf, where the river steamers made their landings, and where we found a group of amused long-shoremen and loafers listening to the hard - luck tale of a sleepy-eyed young fellow in long sea-boots. Charley's Coup
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