SOMNOLENT in a Sentence
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Example sentences for SOMNOLENT, such as:
1. A lazy somnolence descended on the crowd.
2. The heavy meal and the overheated room made us all somnolent and indifferent to the speaker.
3. The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their arrival, in terrified somnolence.
4. In an instant, the somnolence had fled from the lounging throng and something electric went snapping through the air.
5. Clym stepped before her into the passage, and Eustacia waited, her somnolent manner covering her inner heat and agitation.
2. The heavy meal and the overheated room made us all somnolent and indifferent to the speaker.
3. The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their arrival, in terrified somnolence.
4. In an instant, the somnolence had fled from the lounging throng and something electric went snapping through the air.
5. Clym stepped before her into the passage, and Eustacia waited, her somnolent manner covering her inner heat and agitation.
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Meanings and Examples of SOMNOLENT
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somnolent
a. half asleep; inclined to drowsiness; tending to induce sleep
Classic Sentence:
1 Clym stepped before her into the passage, and Eustacia waited, her somnolent manner covering her inner heat and agitation.
2 The droning voice of the professor continued to wind itself slowly round and round the coils it spoke of, doubling, trebling, quadrupling its somnolent energy as the coil multiplied its ohms of resistance.
3 A lazy somnolence descended on the crowd.
4 In an instant, the somnolence had fled from the lounging throng and something electric went snapping through the air.
5 A heavy warm somnolence lay over the house, as if it slept at ease like the girls, until night when it would burst into its full beauty with music and candle flames.
6 They were activities which, beside those of a town, a village, or even a farm, would have appeared as the ferment of stagnation merely, a creeping of the flesh of somnolence.
7 The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their arrival, in terrified somnolence.
Example Sentence:
1 The heavy meal and the overheated room made us all somnolent and indifferent to the speaker.