How to Use soporific in a Sentence

soporific

adjective

• But that was not the case this year, which proved more soporific than Ambien.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 1 May 2023
• The soporific Reagan era made the music and lyrics SST trafficked in seem an active threat.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2022
• Only the library had survived the friars’ long sleep, though barely; even its soporific dust, felled by time, failed to fly up.
  — Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
• Endless sequels at the box office—and soporific awards shows.
  — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
• If the comfort of the chili sauce took the form of catharsis—heart-racing heat and its attendant sweat—the comfort of the tomato soup was soporific, more soothing than Campbell’s.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 6 May 2022
• His music has been described as bland and soporific -- like an aural hit of Ambien.
  — John Blake, CNN, 5 Dec. 2021
• The crew handed out our second meal, a soporific mélange of sweet potato soup, sandwiches and a panna cotta trifle.
  — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2019
• All the talk about the stages of sleep and rapid eye movement left me wishing for some rapid narrative movement; the pace is soporific, and Mr. Burns’s penchant for fancy cross-cutting doesn’t really step things up.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2021
• Bonus: By boosting serotonin, carbs help induce a relaxed, soporific state.
  — Gretchen Röehrs, Harper's BAZAAR, 9 Mar. 2018
• This soporific status quo has served utilities rather well.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• Under the guise of Bedouin, the pair have championed a signature sound that is best described as beautifully soporific.
  — Michael Sundius, Billboard, 24 Aug. 2017
• Long regarded as a backwater in Southeast Asia, Laos is famous for its soporific vibe.
  — Duncan Forgan, CNN, 8 Nov. 2022
• The Ōura app even provides recordings of boring stories, read by someone with a wonderfully soporific voice, to help her fall asleep.
  — John Horgan, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2021
• Or, rather, the pseudo-activity of a free-market model, which keeps people soporific?
  — Peter Pomerantsev, New York Times, 3 May 2018
• And at a time when politics seems to be downright histrionic in many parts of the world, Germany’s election campaign has felt surprisingly soporific.
  — Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 13 Sep. 2017
• And the responsiveness at those diminished limits is soporific at best.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 22 May 2020
• Time was, city council meetings in minor American burgs were sleepy, if not downright soporific affairs.
  — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2022
• All the songs are burdened with soporific string arrangements, blunting the impact of Gabriel’s gravelly delivery.
  — Brad Sanders, SPIN, 13 Feb. 2023
• Beeple’s technique — collaging lots of colorful images in grid format — is a soporific cliche.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
• Yes, a gentle lavender-chamomile whatever is usually the soporific choice.
  — Maggie Lange, Bon Appétit, 28 Mar. 2020
• To avoid muddying the texture, pianists rely on a clean, detached style, and as a result the music too often sounds subdued, fastidious, even soporific.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
• No other season lends itself so readily to daytime lounging as summer, with its soporific heat, slowed-down pace, and somnolent rhythms.
  — Vogue, 6 Sep. 2021
• Yet each week, American state and local governments crank out hefty reports by the dozens, creating a dismal stack of soporific homework for money managers studying whether or not to buy their bonds.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2019
• On this show, what happens after dinner usually arrives in soporific glimpses.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2021
• Three goals in the final 15 minutes put a gloss on a largely soporific performance at a well-below capacity Emirates Stadium.
  — Afp, chicagotribune.com, 1 Apr. 2018
• As an illustration, take a look at two soporific weeks in July 2019 when little of lasting consequence happened in America, aside from the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 12 Mar. 2020
• Living in the shadow of nuclear annihilation, and having freshly returned from war, whites found their own culture anemic and soporific.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 14 May 2017
• The once-soporific Uzbek media was allowed to explore some topics previously considered taboo.
  — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
• There are bundles of Provence’s most famous export, lavender, which also comes in little pillows—great soporific souvenirs, an instant Proustian recollection from your trip.
  — Kate Maxwell, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2022
• Playwright Ayad Akhtar’s script keeps things moving, never getting too bogged down in the financial flimflammery to lose audiences — a neat trick given the occasionally soporific nature of high finance to anyone who’s not an account.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 7 June 2018

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024