ADJECTIVE
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quiet and tranquil
a slumberous June morning -
inclined to or marked by drowsiness
`slumbery' is archaic
slumberous (or slumbrous) eyes
the sound had a somnolent effect
How To Use slumberous In A Sentence
- slumberous (or slumbrous) eyes
- Deep down, he'd known the siren call of what he did best might rise again to waken him from the slumberous existence he'd chosen. THE LAST TEMPTATION
- She blinked once, slumberous and slow, as she rolled to her side facing him. Deadly Promises
- About him, the house lay slumberous, the cloak of night, temporarily disturbed, settling back, a muffling shroud. A RAKE'S VOW
- Charlie had almost dozed off into a restless sleep when Richie's voice startled him out of his slumberous state.
- While he began to write more than a dozen dancing women swept into the room from behind the silk hangings in a concerted movement that was all lithe slumberous grace. In The Time Of Light
- A woman with a coy smile and slumberous eyes could gain access to locales and secrets a male counterpart would have to kill for.
- Henry David Thoreau described the song of one species as ‘a slumberous breathing,’ an ‘intenser dream.’
- One of those dead afternoons, adumbrated, slumberous: not a customer in view. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
- Gordon drove with his mind pleasantly vacant, lulled by the monotonous miles of road flickering through his vision, the shifting forms of distant peaks, virid vistas, nearby trees and bushes, all saturated in the slumberous, yellow, summer heat. Mountain Blood A Novel