Examples of slumberous in a Sentence
parents putting their slumberous children to bed
the slumberous murmur of the wind in the trees
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Confederate monuments were not, after all, slumberous.
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Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books, 20 Aug. 2020
All differences of excellence, of position, of form are blurred by the slumberous acceptance.
—Elizabeth Hardwick, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
With the exception of the minority of people who suffer sudden death, the vast majority of us experience a slumberous slippage from life.
—Sara Manning Peskin, M.d., New York Times, 11 July 2017
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Darryl Pinckney, The New York Review of Books, 20 Aug. 2020
All differences of excellence, of position, of form are blurred by the slumberous acceptance.
—Elizabeth Hardwick, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
With the exception of the minority of people who suffer sudden death, the vast majority of us experience a slumberous slippage from life.
—Sara Manning Peskin, M.d., New York Times, 11 July 2017
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“Slumberous.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slumberous. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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slumberous
adjective
slum·ber·ous
variants
or slumbrous
1
: very sleepy
2
: causing or tending to cause sleep : soporific
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