How to Use sleepy in a Sentence

sleepy

adjective

• She felt sleepy and went to bed.
• When the sun goes down, the South Shore of Lake Tahoe is not a sleepy town.
  — Outside Online, 6 Jan. 2025
• It’s been a sleepy fall so far, but that all changes for you this month.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2023
• Howes and Petersen, sleepy and half dazed, took turns at the wheel on the long drive home.
  — Orval C. Johnson, Outdoor Life, 31 Oct. 2024
• Then again, San Diego isn’t the same sleepy town, either.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
• The bar district felt sleepy until right around the ninth race of the day at 3:35 p.m.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 6 Sep. 2020
• Satchel is thirty-one, with a lanky climber’s build and a sleepy smile.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2022
• Henry high-fived the sleepy-eyed kids, who didn’t want the season to end.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2021
• This was a sleepy town that had never seen crimes like this.
  — Megan Vick, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2024
• The early part of the year is often a bit of a sleepy time for new fiction.
  — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
• Mbedu grew up in the sleepy South African city of Pietermaritzburg.
  — Carina Chocano, Vogue, 12 May 2021
• Monday’s mass killing marked the second time the sleepy town has made headlines in the last month.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2023
• Students’ yawns turn to smiles; their sleepy eyes light up.
  — Claire Bryan, San Antonio Express-News, 10 June 2022
• Set up a profile for each part of your day: work time, lunchtime, sleepy time.
  — Evan Selinger, Wired, 11 Aug. 2021
• Back in the 1870s, Fort Worth was said to be such a sleepy, drowsy town that a mountain lion slept in the street.
  — Matt Leclercq, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 July 2025
• Our first home/rental was in the sleepy little town of Sierra Madre.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2020
• Sasha’s sleepy dog Quincy even made a cameo on the album with his snores.
  — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2023
• Usyk and Dubois have some work to do to save a pretty sleepy event in London.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 19 July 2025
• Fresh air and sunshine are good for them and tend to make both people and pets sleepy.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 9 Nov. 2019
• The little girl yawns and closes her eyes, a whisper of a smile on her sleepy face.
  — Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
• Your ruler, the unitive Moon, is soothing your sleepy 12th house.
  — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
• In dog terms, this can mean that the pooch will be shy, quiet, sleepy, or keep to itself.
  — Liz Krieger, Family, 14 Dec. 2020
• And with that amount of firepower even there was no chance of getting sleepy even in the night scenes.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
• Children with the virus may be fussy, sleepy throughout the day and cry without tears.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025
• With his swoopy chestnut hair, sleepy blue eyes, and god-like jaw, Gabriel ticks all of the boxes of My Type.
  — Sam Reed, Glamour, 26 Dec. 2022
• The first event was sleepy, said pastor Sarah Halverson-Cano.
  — Hillary Davis, Daily Pilot, 21 Sep. 2019
• The outcry from the fans in those cities, where seasons go to die, that if sleepy San Diego can do it, why not us?
  — Jay Paris, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• The next stop was a cheese shop that her grandmother had loved, in the sleepy border town of San Elizario.
  — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
• The protagonist Melba lives in Dan, a sleepy village where the rules of physics, grammar, and cause and effect have all quietly retired.
  — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
• Exiting the broadband business over time while the other businesses continue to grow could be a plus for the company as it will no longer be viewed as a sleepy broadband communications business.
  — Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 9 Aug. 2025