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Meanings of slumbrous in English
Synonyms
Examples for "somnolent"
Examples for "somnolent"
1
From within comes the steady, somnolent buzz of a great many flies.
2
The electorate was somnolent and permitted the politician to have his way.
3
There was a most enormous, somnolent, loudly-snoring mastiff there when we met.
4
The street, save for a distant and presumably somnolent policeman, was deserted.
5
Casey muttered, staring down upon a somnolent wilderness blanketed with hushed midnight.
1
But his thoughts were gradually getting too busy for this slumberous state.
2
The soft background hum of the camp blended into a slumberous blur.
3
A solemn twilight, heavy and oppressive, was closing a dull, slumberous day.
4
The roo-hooing of the pigeons fills the whole place with a slumberous sound.
5
Through the slumberous summer air came the whir of the machine.
1
So the passage down the full and slumbery Fal seemed nearly a soundless thing.
2
7 Fair Chrysogone in slumbery trance whilere:
Usage of slumbrous in English
1
The heat of the slumbrous afternoon was oppressive; all animation seemed suspended.
2
She looked at me with a singular expression in her slumbrous eyes.
3
It was slumbrous, being a slave town, but it was not dead.
4
Obedient to the slumbrous mandate, Lad turned and pattered mournfully away.
5
Blue Duck opened his slumbrous eyes a fraction wider and looked at Call.
6
Of the two slumbrous collies, one was slenderly graceful of outline; gold-and-white of hue.
7
It was a pleasant summer day, the air very clear, the place very slumbrous.
8
Lysia looked at him steadfastly, an under-gleam of malice shining in her slumbrous eyes.
9
They were Oriental, slumbrous, meditative, and the black pupils were of an exaggerated size.
10
A slumbrous haze brooded over canals and palaces and churches.
11
The wood, too, was full of a slumbrous murmur that I did not understand.
12
Three or four messengers squatted beside the wall, with slumbrous heads between their knees.
13
She smiled up at him, her darkly slumbrous, scarlet-lipped smile.
14
What a world of ferocity in those black, slumbrous eyes!
15
Brightened, as in the slumbrous heart of the woods
16
A low whistle floated through the slumbrous silence and died softly away among the sand-dunes.
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United Kingdom
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