How to Use drowsy in a Sentence

drowsy

adjective

• We spent a drowsy afternoon by the pool.
• There are ways to make the most of a drowsy start to the day.
  — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 3 May 2023
• None of these measures will fly if the beliefs around drowsy driving do not change.
  — Lieke Ten Brummelhuis, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
• Not getting enough sleep does much more than leave you feeling drowsy the next morning.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 13 Oct. 2022
• My sister’s face was drowsy, eyes half-lidded, her cheeks and nose flushed with sunburn.
  — Mary Grimm, The New Yorker, 17 June 2019
• Back at Krystal, a drowsy fan began to nod off in the front window.
  — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 14 Jan. 2020
• Our young visitor wore teal footie pajamas and looked at us with drowsy eyes.
  — Gina Rich, Travel + Leisure, 25 Sep. 2023
• At this point, putting your baby to bed drowsy but awake can help encourage him to sleep through the night.
  — Craig Canapari, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2020
• Once Merritt was drowsy, Abby led her down to the beach and drowned her in the ocean.
  — Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 6 Sep. 2024
• Each child would receive vaccinations, making some feel drowsy and sick in the days to come.
  — Aaron Leibowitz, miamiherald, 11 July 2018
• But motifs of blue whales flying above piers to tattoos on movie stars work to defy drowsy stereotypes.
  — Danielle Fox, ELLE Decor, 29 May 2018
• In my drowsy haze of half-slumber, the temptation to surrender was strong.
  — Hoda Sherif, TIME, 10 May 2024
• When the girls grew drowsy they were hoisted back onto the bikes, each sandwiched between two male riders.
  — The Economist, 4 Nov. 2017
• In these professions, long hours on the road contribute to drowsy driving.
  — Lieke Ten Brummelhuis, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
• All of this can understandably lead the body to getting drowsy after giving birth.
  — Lauryn Higgins, Parents, 10 Oct. 2024
• These are physical alerts to wake a drowsy driver to re-take vehicle control).
  — Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 20 Jan. 2024
• Each of the systems is trained to pick up on different combinations of signs that a driver is drowsy.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Nov. 2024
• The clamor jolted her drowsy partner Toi Cliatt, who was lying on the bed.
  — Bart Jansen, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
• But Merritt drinks the spiked beverage and drowns, drowsy from the medication.
  — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2024
• On her third visit, police say the suspect and her daughter offered the victim a cupcake which made the victim feel numb and drowsy.
  — Amanda Watts, CNN, 15 Feb. 2020
• Alprazolam, the brand name of which is Xanax, is a benzodiazepine and can make someone drowsy.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2023
• Last year, Iowa hosted the first statewide drowsy driving summit to increase public awareness of the problem.
  — Jenni Bergal, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2017
• In the waiting area, Beth Arcail nestled a drowsy Elliana into her stroller.
  — Anne Saker, Cincinnati.com, 16 Dec. 2017
• Now, drowsy, sprawling McCordsville is trying to settle the type of noise dispute more common in dense big cities.
  — John Tuohy, Indianapolis Star, 22 June 2018
• Fatigue Being tired at the end of the day or drowsy at bedtime is not the same thing as fatigue, which is more severe than simply feeling tired.
  — Nancy Lebrun, Verywell Health, 27 Nov. 2024
• Just as the poster and the trailer give little away, there is a drowsy slowness to the first half-hour of the film as the crew awake from hypersleep to answer a distress call.
  — J.b., The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• Within an hour or two of ingesting it, young children under the age of 10 can become drowsy, clumsy, and out of balance.
  — Julia Michie Bruckner, Discover Magazine, 5 Apr. 2024
• The chair looks much like any other office chair but, in that drowsy after-lunch hour the back reclines all the way down, and extra leg-supports flip out from under the seat squab.
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2010
• But critics of the stop-the-clock idea said that would result in a 17-hour work window, heightening the risk of drowsy driving and accidents.
  — Richard Lardner, Twin Cities, 1 July 2019
• Though the Looff carousel remains splendidly vivid, the rest of Slater Park projects a shabby gentility, a drowsy grandeur.
  — Michael Tortorello, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017