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Meanings of somnolent in English
Synonyms
Examples for "slumberous"
Examples for "slumberous"
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
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.
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 somnolent in English
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.
6
Says the decision violently disrupted the owners' somnolent, nineteenth century industry.
7
Then for some minutes he continued in somnolent contemplation of the courthouse front.
8
He is the Turk of the intellect made somnolent by meditation.
9
McCartney's last several musical efforts have been exercises in somnolent pop.
10
The fellow was somnolent, and in sepulchral silence we journeyed to Vine Street.
11
By dint of much persuasion I dragged from the somnolent George various details.
12
With thunder and heavenly fireworks must one speak to indolent and somnolent senses.
13
The street, somnolent with approaching noon, was deserted-thechild had disappeared.
14
The Senate Intelligence Committee has been seemingly somnolent since shortly after Trump's inauguration.
15
From the phrase 'inter-somnolent,' he appears to prefer the intermediate condition.
16
He is also a compelling orator where Romney seems slick and Thompson somnolent.
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Somnolent through the time
Somnolent across language varieties
United Kingdom
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