How to Use somnolent in a Sentence

somnolent

adjective

• And then some kids get so sleepy and somnolent and difficult to wake up that they get put on a breathing machine.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 15 Nov. 2019
• The site of Brown’s family house—which burned down a hundred years ago—was in the woods, up a somnolent arterial road named for Brown.
  — John Lahr, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
• Often the challenge lies as much in bringing somnolent machines to life.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2020
• For a kid growing up between small-town Pennsylvania and the somnolent Warsaw of the late 1980s, this was potent stuff to dream with.
  — Jacob Mikanowski, Harper's magazine, 21 July 2019
• Although her eyes are open and piercingly blue, there is something of a somnolent haze about her, like a girl who has not yet awakened to her adulthood.
  — Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
• Now, handlers approached with the next round of sedation darts, followed soon by the somnolent march into metal crates for the drive north to Mswati airport.
  — New York Times, 9 July 2019
• In baseball runs are precious things that break through the night's uncomplicated and somnolent haze like a lightning bolt.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 13 July 2019
• Bahnsen grew up reading Ditlevsen’s poems, and this one has a somnolent quality that lends itself to her dreamy, even cloudlike designs.
  — New York Times, 9 Mar. 2022
• Here three people gather at the bedside of the somnolent d’Alembert, who triggers a four-way talkfest by giving voice to a wild, uninhibited fever-dream.
  — Dan Hofstadter, WSJ, 15 Feb. 2019
• A year-and-a-half ago, the stylish boutique hotel Rest debuted in Plymouth, the somnolent but awakening gateway to Shenandoah Valley.
  — Mike Dunne, sacbee, 2 Aug. 2017
• Suddenly changing gears from somnolent piano lines to driving propulsion and back again, the music has the blank moodiness of a score for a nonexistent film.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 16 May 2018
• During the primary season, Biden’s fundraising was atrocious and the enthusiasm level of his crowds ranged from tepid to somnolent.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 16 Apr. 2020
• Compare this with the somnolent life of India’s developers.
  — Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2019
• The state-monopoly BBC, though, was heavily censored and played a somnolent organ refrain at intervals throughout the day.
  — John Broich, Slate Magazine, 27 Mar. 2017
• At an uncommon hour, when devoted nightcrawlers are switching from liquor to beer, and even the city that never sleeps slows to a semi-somnolent pace, the two fledgling men’s stars traded spectacular winners in Queens.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
• On Saturday, Tiger Stadium could be downright somnolent for a kickoff at 11 a.m. local time.
  — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• Addicted to oil wealth, Saudi Arabia has become a somnolent and spoiled society, with a squabbling royal family of some 7,000 princes.
  — Karen Elliott House, WSJ, 17 July 2018
• Instead, more than a month passed before Mueller’s somnolent objection finally leaked its way into public knowledge.
  — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 19 Aug. 2019
• Outside Jordan, the queen’s Jackie Kennedy-like mystique helped raise Jordan’s profile, sometimes rattling the kingdom’s largely somnolent diplomatic corps.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2021
• The Herald Examiner building remained standing, albeit in a somnolent state.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2021
• A string of high-profile incidents involving somnolent truck drivers and railroad engineers have called attention to an emerging sleep disorder.
  — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 8 Aug. 2017
• In an otherwise somnolent campaign marked by little disagreement or rancor, the AfD’s campaign posters were inflammatory.
  — Griff Witte, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2017
• Houston is an ascendant mid-major program with a legendary head coach who energized a somnolent fan base through suffocating defense, a team-first mentality and a roster of players overlooked or cast aside by college basketball’s big boys.
  — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• That may be partly due to cinematographer Nicholas Wiesnet's oppressively dark visuals (most of the story takes place at night), which tend to produce an unnecessarily somnolent effect.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2020
• Instead, America now has a system in which determined minorities routinely defeat somnolent majorities.
  — Alan S. Blinder, The New Republic, 22 Mar. 2018
• Their long-somnolent town is suddenly encountering a group of international urbanites with gleamingly expensive and outlandishly new equipment: sophisticated farm machinery, spanking new mobile homes, Rolls Royces.
  — Wendla McGovern, The New Republic, 12 Apr. 2018

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