47 examples of sleepiness in sentences

It was quite dark during the last hour of my journey last night, and I had snow-sleepiness.

They were tired and sleepy, and sat in every conceivable attitude expressive of sleepiness and fatigue.

There may also be abnormal sleepiness, greater even than that of the normal baby in the first month or two in that there is no spontaneous awakening from the coma for food.

Opium: Morphine, Sleepiness; dullness; Cause vomiting.

So at last he slipped out of the circle, and stumbling with weariness and sleepiness went to Tree Mother.

We moved slowly on, as people naturally would who were about to be overwhelmed in a calamity that threatened their annihilation, while an indefinable sensation of sleepiness and inertia seized the whole of the party.

Beyond the dining-car and Pullmans stretched twelve day-coaches filled with less-opulent white travelers in all degrees of sleepiness and dishabille from having sat up all night.

The latter, having vainly struggled with his sleepiness, has at length begun to nod.

Selwyn's sleepiness was well known.

sopor, m., drowsiness, sleepiness.

When it drew on toward midnight, and the moon hung high in the heavens, old Akka shook the sleepiness out of her eyes.

There is generally also a deficiency of bile in the motions, and, in addition to simple costiveness, we have more or less loss of appetite, with a too pale tongue, dullness, and sleepiness, with slight redness of the conjunctiva.

I don't know whether it was my saying "Germans" to him that explained it, but his sleepiness seemed suddenly to have disappeared, so he asked for the chance to wash and shave; and half an hour later he came down all slicked up and spruce, with a very visible intention of paying court to the lady of the house.

At times I became so oppressed with fatigue and sleepiness that it took almost superhuman effort to keep my fingers going; in fact, I believe I sometimes did so while dozing.

Huge dockyard barges, piled with casks and stores, were being towed alongside the ships of war, and the bustle and life of the scene were delightful indeed to Jack, accustomed only to the quiet sleepiness of a cathedral town like Canterbury.

Don't you remember there was one at Astor M'Kree's last winter?" suggested Phil, whose tumble had dispelled some of his sleepiness, although he still talked in a drowsy tone, and rumpled his hair wildly all over his head.

Sylvia took Lawrence, yawning and rubbing his eyes, but fighting desperately against his sleepiness, upstairs for his nap.

Even his sleepiness, his stupidity, are likely to have been assumed.

"And some time II, thine own son," he said as sleepiness came upon him, "will be a killer of tigers, even as Warwick Sahib.

KIKI-THE-DEMURE, (sitting up, his eyes pale from the light and sleepiness)

We've talked away our sleepiness.

I shall hardly have crossed the threshold when an overpowering sleepiness will dash me to the floor in front of youyou, who will reduce the mud on my belly to fine powder and change the water of the roads to smoky vapor.

But I can tell you that there is an official person who meditates and groans, meanwhile, in the night-watches, to think that in some atrocious moment of good-nature or sleepiness he left the door open and let that ungainly intruder in.

I almost forgot what it was to play; and when I got home at night I staggered with sleepiness.

He relates it as follows: "I was staying in Virginia, some hundred miles away from home, when one morning about eleven o'clock I felt an overpowering sleepiness, which drowsiness was quite unusual, and which caused me to lie down.

47 examples of  sleepiness  in sentences