How to Use sleepy in a Sentence

sleepy

adjective

• She felt sleepy and went to bed.
• It’s been a sleepy fall so far, but that all changes for you this month.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2023
• Then again, San Diego isn’t the same sleepy town, either.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
• 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
• Sasha’s sleepy dog Quincy even made a cameo on the album with his snores.
  — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• Even when strange things start to happen in his sleepy village.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 21 Sep. 2022
• Today, the sleepy resort town is still home to a clutch of cool hotels, like the Kanopi House and Geejam.
  — Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2023
• For eyes, use a round tip to pipe brown frosting in small half-circles to make adorably sleepy eyes.
  — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Sep. 2022
• Utilities, once a sleepy corner of the stock market, are up 4.15% for the week.
  — Hakyung Kim, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2024
• Feeling sleepy but don’t want to miss New York’s famous ball-drop?
  — Karla Pope, Good Housekeeping, 27 Nov. 2022
• To an investor or a new C.E.O., the sleepy heritage brand can work as an advantage.
  — Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2024
• The dessert is a sight for sleepy eyes late at night: soothing nursery food no matter your age.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
• What was once a sleepy island of whalers and fisherman is now the Hamptons of Germany.
  — Garrett Munce, Town & Country, 4 May 2023
• The murder took place in broad daylight in Katzrin, a sleepy town in northern Israel.
  — New York Times, 5 Aug. 2022
• At the start of the video, the HGTV star picks up her sleepy son, kisses him on the cheek and carries him over to his fish tank to admire the fish swimming around.
  — Emma Aerin Becker, Peoplemag, 2 Aug. 2024
• The man is a musician from the town of Moura, once a sleepy community of farmers and herders.
  — Jon Swaine, Washington Post, 23 May 2022
• In the mother-son selfie, Eve sat up in bed while her sleepy newborn rested on her chest.
  — Emily St. Martin, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2023
• And thus the cycle of having to roust a sleepy, yawning teenager from bed for school begins again.
  — Horacio De La Iglesia, The Conversation, 16 Sep. 2022
• This was a day when Alabama started somewhat sleepy against the FCS team.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 19 Nov. 2022
• The oldest of three children and a couple of close cousins, Warford was a quiet, sleepy baby.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 10 Oct. 2023
• Her mood was part pro-athlete-in-media-mode, part sleepy teenager.
  — Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2024
• Indica, on the other hand, can make the consumer feel sleepy or lethargic.
  — Adrienne Roberts, Detroit Free Press, 23 July 2023
• Five years ago, Malibu was still a sleepy beach town, where retailers had a hard time making a go of it all year round, Aiello said.
  — Deborah Belgum, WWD, 14 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Sep 2024