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Examples of somniferous in a Sentence
a somniferous enumeration of details that I could have done without
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Everyone was back in the Dolby Theatre, a welcome return after last year’s somniferous experiment from Steven Soderbergh, which was held in Los Angeles’s Union Station.
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Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2022
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Etymology
Latin somnifer somniferous, from somnus + -fer -ferous
First Known Use
1602, in the meaning defined above
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“Somniferous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/somniferous. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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somniferous
adjective
som·nif·er·ous
säm-ˈnif-(ə-)rəs 
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