[
US
/ˈsɫipi/
]
[ UK /slˈiːpi/ ]
[ UK /slˈiːpi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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ready to fall asleep
a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids
beginning to feel sleepy
sleepyheaded students
How To Use sleepy In A Sentence
- Ye same did rede a portion of his "Venus and Adonis," to their prodigious admiration, whereas I, being sleepy and fatigued withal, did deme it but paltry stuff, and was the more discomforted in that ye blody bucanier had got his wind again, and did turn his mind to farting with such villain zeal that presently I was like to choke once more. 1601
- One's feet were cold and the uncertainty of everything made one yawny but not sleepy.
- The second set also starts of in a rollicky jamming way with a Stranger and a Cumberland to write home about, but then the band slows down and you get a sleepy Gloria and a communally weird Do It In The Road where "everyone" sings. Bt.etree.org
- Just give in to the sleepy warmth of snow.
- Two: even our sleepy suburban cove had been invaded by traffic.
- Tea at a tiny inn sunk in a dell through which a sleepy lane trickled between high banks -- tea in the pocket garden under sweet-smelling limes, where stocks stood orderly and honeysuckle sprawled over the brick-nogging, brought back old days of happy fellowship, just to outshine their memory. Anthony Lyveden
- One thing The Sleepy Jackson has done though, is pick a quality support act, in the shape of The Delays.
- The side effects of sedatives and calming drugs like Prozac used for destructive, anxious and fearful pets make animals sleepy or lethargic.
- a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids
- Hi!" he called breathlessly, as he tore down to Sleepy Hollow, where the others were having a laze. The Sea of Adventure