The phrase "already sleepy" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe when someone is starting to become tired before they have actually gone to bed or plan to rest. For example, "Even though it was only 5pm, I was already sleepy and needed to take a nap."
THE evening had just started, but the Whitest Kids U' Know were already sleepy.
Open all year (yurt April-September) Set well back off an already sleepy road, this six-acre family-run campsite with sea views, a basic shower block and a small shop, is an ideal base for exploring the exceptional beauty of the Lizard peninsula, whose coast is dotted with secret coves, deserted sandy stretches and dramatic outcrops.
"My biggest parenting conundrum: why it is so hard to put someone who is already sleepy to sleep?" ― Chrissy.
Don't read if you are already sleepy!
And sleep was irresistible — I'd nearly not made lunch, I was already so sleepy.
Because if you are already feeling sleepy, it becomes extremely difficult to pay attention.
Many readers, of course, already know that this sleepy, oven-hot hamlet of almond trees and multicolored wood-plank homes is Macondo, the fictional town where the abundant, fantastical Buendía family wandered in "One Hundred Years of Solitude".
We might have now got used to the notion that commissioning editors are camouflaging their catastrophic lack of ideas by cannibalising the movies – after all, everything from Teen Wolf to Nikita to Sleepy Hollow had already been turned into a series and even last year's best show The Returned was based on a film – but, even so, Fargo felt a step too far.
Farther east in the state, the Sleepy Hollow fire has already burned thousands of acres and almost 30 homes.
At noon, with the temperature already pushing past 100 degrees, the airport looked sleepy.
AFTER only a year, Lelands.com, one of the nation's largest auctioneers of sports memorabilia, is already weighing expanding its offices in this hamlet's sleepy downtown.
