sleepier; sleepiest
1
a
: ready to fall asleep
b
: of, relating to, or characteristic of sleep
2
: sluggish as if from sleep : lethargic
also
: having little activity
a sleepy coastal village
3
: sleep-inducing
Examples of sleepy in a Sentence
She felt sleepy and went to bed.
the sleepy children were carried up to bed
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Except that four years later, on The Hills, Lauren Conrad passed it up for a guy with frosted tips and sleepy vibes.
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Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 17 Sep. 2025
For a young Federico Marchetti, growing up in this sleepy seaside town of 150,000 along the Adriatic coast, these masterpieces weren’t just tourist attractions but his first lessons in merging beauty and business.
—Pooja Shah, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
The image of your mother being too sleepy to enjoy the spoils of her own hard work—or to even be fully present as her children enjoyed those spoils—struck me as such a succinct encapsulation of her sacrifice and her heroism, as well as their drawbacks.
—G'ra Asim
september 16, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
Except that four years later, on The Hills, Lauren Conrad passed it up for a guy with frosted tips and sleepy vibes.
—Megan Angelo, Glamour, 11 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for sleepy
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“Sleepy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sleepy. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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