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Recent Examples of drowse
Lynette Rice, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2019
Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
The dog, Russ, drowsed on the floor at his owner’s feet, drooling onto the tile.
—Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
Bear in mind that those 55 million impressions were totted up long before Nielsen began counting scores of drowsing aunts and hyperactive toddlers among its national TV deliveries.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 27 Nov. 2025
The feast is digested by now at our house and the tryptophan is kicking in, but the late game is too good to drowse on.
—Miami Herald, 25 Nov. 2025
Stars lounged and drowsed: Muhammad Ali with a newspaper, Peter Cook in his old mac on a lilo in a Hollywood pool.
—The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
Noun
The wealthy suburb of Phoenix drowses in the heat of the Sonoran Desert, sprinkled with luxury resorts catering to snowbirds in what Arizonans call the Valley of the Sun.
—Lynette Rice, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2019
Verb
Some shaggy buffalo drowsed in a patch of shade, and a hose fed water into a large puddle where a white goose paddled in tight circles.
—Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
The dog, Russ, drowsed on the floor at his owner’s feet, drooling onto the tile.
—Literary Hub, 11 May 2026
Bear in mind that those 55 million impressions were totted up long before Nielsen began counting scores of drowsing aunts and hyperactive toddlers among its national TV deliveries.
—Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 27 Nov. 2025
The feast is digested by now at our house and the tryptophan is kicking in, but the late game is too good to drowse on.
—Miami Herald, 25 Nov. 2025
Stars lounged and drowsed: Muhammad Ali with a newspaper, Peter Cook in his old mac on a lilo in a Hollywood pool.
—The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for drowse
Noun
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This was, it should be stressed, all a part of the grand strategy at Liverpool where the cult of the manager either died or has taken a nap since the departure of Klopp, whose force was so great that he was left with little structure to support him.—
Simon Hughes,
New York Times,
30 May 2026
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The Today and Health tabs are getting charts for hourly step goals, as well, and a new 24-hour total sleep overview will show both main sleep and naps.—
Stevie Bonifield,
The Verge,
27 May 2026
Verb
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Richards, who began relaxing her hair at 13-years-old, echoes this.—
Annie Blay-Tettey,
Allure,
29 May 2026
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The important thing with knowing the danger is to accept it and relax.—
Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
29 May 2026
Verb
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In another Amsterdam photo, a pair of identical world globes, recalling Ghirri’s passion for cartography and atlases, rest on matching supports to conjure that oldest of surrealist tropes, a pair of staring eyes.—
James Quandt,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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Eventually, your eyes come to rest on the hotel’s facade—an impressive grid of local stone and wooden louvers that is Urquiola’s ode to the oeuvre of Rationalist architect Giuseppe Terragni.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 June 2026
Verb
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The toothless man nodded, and the fat woman dozed.—
Óscar Martínez,
The Dial,
30 Apr. 2026
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On some of my visits, Marsha dozes most of the time.—
Marc Silver,
NPR,
19 Apr. 2026
Verb
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But the nannies had to get up in the night at the sound of my shrieks while my parents slumbered with ear-plugs in.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Apr. 2026
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And amazingly, photographs of them have been slumbering in archives or circulating unidentified for almost a century.—
Glenn Kurtz,
Time,
28 Mar. 2026
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“Drowse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/drowse. Accessed 3 Jun. 2026.
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