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Meanings of drowsing in inglês
Sinônimos
Examples for "drowsy"
Examples for "drowsy"
1
It was the careful work of many long and drowsy autumn days.
2
The drowsy clocks now announced the hour of three in the morning.
3
You turn and run, terror pumping new energy into your drowsy limbs.
4
She started up with the idea of fire in her drowsy mind.
5
In less than fifteen minutes two drowsy-looking officers were in the room.
1
I read them in the dozy hours, and only half remember them.
2
The face lines squiggled their way into an expression of dozy obedience.
3
Joanna picks a dozy of a fight over Laura when they return home.
4
In adverse conditions, it gets you dozy and cosy, and quickly.
5
That's why his abrupt appearance within their dozy scene frightened them.
Usage of drowsing in inglês
1
Never had I seen the village drowsing in so sweet a peace.
2
Occasionally there was a snore; evidently Bill was drowsing the day away.
3
It was a brilliantly coloured solitude, drowsing in a warm, voluptuous silence.
4
To the drowsing me, everything that followed seemed somehow like a dream.
5
As I was drowsing off again, she spoke very gently to me.
6
Then all was still about him, and he emptied his mind, drowsing.
7
The mate, drowsing on the hard stern, finally smiled with closed eyes.
8
Is that his secret? He glanced at Mark, who was already drowsing.
9
Looking through the cracks, I observed my two gentlemen drowsing in the corner.
10
Throughout the exchange, Baze had been slumped forward, as if drowsing.
11
The sharpness of her voice roused old Mrs. Brenner, drowsing in her corner.
12
Over the whole drowsing world brooded the solemn hush of late summer afternoon.
13
His drowsing virtue had suffered the torments of a fruitless resurrection.
14
I wasn't trying to listen; I was drowsing, and paying very little attention.
15
A flock of white ducks lay drowsing on a grassy spot.
16
He seemed dull and weary, and sat long, drowsing and drinking after dinner.
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Drowsing through the time
Drowsing across language varieties
United Kingdom
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