How To Use Drowsing In A Sentence
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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
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Sinking into the large cushion on her armchair, she smiles slyly, as if just awakened from drowsing over the book shut on her lap.
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No one was in the streets that wee Shane could see, and yet the town was lifeful, some tropical city where the green jalousies were closed in the heat of the midday sun, and where no one was on the streets, barring some unseen old beggar or peddling woman drowsing in the shade.
The Wind Bloweth
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Sean shrieked at a school of drowsing fish who promptly scattered to deeper waters.
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And this tired CPO will be dragging his tuches into work from the ‘burbs past the homes of drowsing Montgomery County children who once again lend credence to the notion that they are constructed entirely of tissue paper.
Snowpacolypse. Meh. « The Blog at 16th and Q
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While drowsing at his desk that evening over what one imagines to be a well-worn copy of Plato's Dialogues, he falls into a strange dream for which the famous parable of the cave provides the indifferent material.
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My mother was sitting on the porch drowsing in the sun.
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The Mississippi River has been fortunate in its chroniclers: Mark Twain's "Life on the Mississippi," Ron Powers's "White Town Drowsing" (about Hannibal, Mo., the town where Twain grew up) and John Barry's "Rising Tide" (about flooding on the Lower Mississippi in the early 20th century) are just three among many fine books on what T.S. Eliot called the "strong brown god.
Lee Sandlin's "Wicked River: The Mississippi," reviewed by Dennis Drabelle
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Last night, after drinks at Grey and drowsing (drunk and browsing) at the new Elliott Bay book store, I saw a bill of bands at the nearby Healthy Times Fun Club.
Last Night « PubliCola
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The very first inning in the field, while I was safely drowsing in left field, fending off the midges, a long drive sailed over my head, heading for the outfield fence.
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We did not stay very long, because I was coughing and sneezing, and drowsing, and jelly legged.
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He stood drowsing on one side of the fire, and she slept on the other.
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One could look forward to vacation, sleeping most of the day, drowsing along in a overwarm, zombified preteen state.
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Old as were the words, the melody was older -- so old and quaint and sweet that it seemed a berceuse fashioned to soothe the drowsing centuries, lest the memories of ancient wrongs awake and rouse the very dead from their Gothic tombs.
The Maids of Paradise
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After a disturbed night's rest Burr awoke early and called his drowsing companion.
A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett
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A bridge, scorched yellow palms from the summer-sleeping house drowsing through August.
John Lundberg: Britain's Leaders Name Their Favorite Poems
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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
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The students were drowsing in the 8 AM class
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In 1963, while drowsing through a boring talk at a scientific meeting, Ulam had found himself doodling a grid of horizontal and vertical lines.
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Something about the powdery pallor, the intelligent brow, the drowsing accent.
ZOMBIES ARE NOT THE NEW VAMPIRES: THEY DON’T SUCK | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
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She had taken her chocolate and smoked her cigarito, but was still drowsing.
Remember the Alamo
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Despite what interest it might have spiked in me in the first place, it has now subdued to a simple regular lulling sound drowsing my mind.
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Again Saxon was drowsing, when the rustling sound was heard, this time closer.
CHAPTER II
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Passed out this evening on the couch, but didn't sleep all that long, maybe 90 minutes of broken drowsing.
January 5th, 2009
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it seemed a pity to disturb the drowsing (or dozing) professor
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Davy had walked past the drowsing snake unharmed and was now cornered on the rattler 's far side.
HOUR OF THE HUNTER
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Drowsing on the makeshift pallet, he learns his first lesson of what it means to have money: the rich often endure boredom.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Or perhaps my deep sigh stirred her past the edge of drowsing.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN