How to Use sleepy in a Sentence

sleepy

adjective

• She felt sleepy and went to bed.
• This was a sleepy town that had never seen crimes like this.
  — Megan Vick, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2024
• Often too sleepy to fly, the insects crash into the hard ground or almond trees.
  — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2024
• The story is set in the once sleepy seaside hamlet of Deadloch and begins after a man’s dead body is found on the beach.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 20 Feb. 2022
• Despite the loss, Legans and the Pilots’ revamped roster brought life to a sleepy program.
  — oregonlive, 6 Mar. 2022
• The Moon is still making her way through your sleepy 12th House, encouraging you to sleep in.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2022
• Cottonwood Not long ago, Cottonwood was a sleepy little burg with much of its small downtown sitting vacant.
  — Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 29 Sep. 2024
• The self-sufficiency of that military base has long played a role in keeping Twentynine Palms sleepy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2022
• Rostyslav Zavhorodnii used to paint and tutor his art students in a makeshift studio in his one-bedroom apartment in a sleepy district in southeast Kyiv.
  — NBC News, 1 Mar. 2022
• Far from just making employees feel sleepy, fatigue can slow reaction times, reduce focus, impair judgment and limit short-term memory.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Mar. 2022
• Phoenix has a severe housing shortage and converting existing buildings into apartments can get units online faster while breathing new life into sleepy office parks.
  — Jessica Boehm, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
• Nothing ever happens in the sleepy Vermont town where parents trust their teenagers will arrive home safely from school and front doors are left unlocked–until a dead girl is found in a cornfield by a farmer.
  — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 30 Sep. 2024
• Ancient ruins, frenetic concrete jungles, and sleepy rice paddy towns blanket the 11 countries that make up Southeast Asia.
  — Katie Lockhart, Robb Report, 11 Oct. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024