Examples of soporific in a Sentence

Adjective the soporific heat of summer this medication is soporific, so do not drive after taking it

Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective Time was, city council meetings in minor American burgs were sleepy, if not downright soporific affairs. — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2022 If the comfort of the chili sauce took the form of catharsis—heart-racing heat and its attendant sweat—the comfort of the tomato soup was soporific, more soothing than Campbell’s. — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 6 May 2022 The soporific Reagan era made the music and lyrics SST trafficked in seem an active threat. — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2022 His music has been described as bland and soporific -- like an aural hit of Ambien. — John Blake, CNN, 5 Dec. 2021 The Ōura app even provides recordings of boring stories, read by someone with a wonderfully soporific voice, to help her fall asleep. — John Horgan, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2021 No other season lends itself so readily to daytime lounging as summer, with its soporific heat, slowed-down pace, and somnolent rhythms. — Vogue, 6 Sep. 2021 On this show, what happens after dinner usually arrives in soporific glimpses. — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2021 Relevance, though, often covers a multitude of aesthetic faults — the soporific dullness of being earnest, relentless sentimentality or even a covert didacticism, typically stressing the myriad derelictions to which human beings are all prey. — Washington Post, 23 June 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Despite the vicious—and mostly ineffective—GOP attacks on Biden’s mental acuity, the former vice president gave listeners a level of detail Thursday night that bordered on the soporific. — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 15 Oct. 2020 The filmmakers hit the reset button again, to find new conflict-laden places to go, new soporific curses to do. — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Oct. 2019 And education’s soporific wonkitude works in its favor: Negotiations fly under the radar. — Roger Sollenberger, The New Republic, 5 Aug. 2019 Norton, who has already completed the 12-hour sleep-coaching program with his own Tier X trainer, takes me up to the hotel’s penthouse suite to watch the sunset over the Hudson and sample a line of soporific CBD chocolates. — Howie Kahn, WSJ, 27 Mar. 2019 Like at night, when the soft beds and gentle rhythms of the train become a potent soporific. — Jo Rodgers, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2018 After a soporific first 45 minutes ended scoreless, more than 40,000 spectators at the Rostov Arena had little reason to expect the remarkable, rollicking second half that awaited them. — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 4 July 2018 This never made sense anyway, though for the gullible few, inflamed rhetoric has apparently served as an effective soporific. — Thomas Jewell, cleveland.com, 3 Jan. 2018 The flow is further evident in the variety of tracks, which span the gamut from lush deep house rhythms to soporific electronica and ambient compositions. — Michael Sundius, Billboard, 30 Oct. 2017 See More

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