Sentence examples for drowsed from inspiring English sources

I closed my eyes, and drowsed until a sharp horn woke me.

The warm bus wended through the countryside and Pell drowsed in her seat, her drooping forehead scuffing the wet window and starting her back awake.

Behind the walls, palms and red pines loomed above Ottoman mansions that drowsed in the leafy darkness.

Birds flitted in and out of the olive trees and shadows drowsed around the swimming pool beneath the ancient carob tree.

They read magazines or fingered laptops, drowsed between headphones or chatted with friends and relatives, all pointedly ignoring the transparent bags of factor-this or factor-that being factored into them, that hung from stands by their shoulders.

Back then, you drowsed through endless sessions of the Senate, lived in a flyspecked boarding house on a muddy street, and nursed your resentments.

A huge lunch is served upstairs to stop us leaving the building: meat, fish, pasta, wine, cheese and pudding, which some of us smuggle out in napkins to snack on at teatime, as we drowse beside the keyboard.In my office, which faces west on the 13th floor, the blinds are permanently down to keep the dazzle of daylight off our screens.

Margolin's lyricism is typified by her short poem "Slender Ships," which begins, "Slender ships drowse on the swollen green water, / black shadows sleep on the cold heart of the water".

It was hot and rich and guaranteed an afternoon of drowsing at one's work station.

A girl drowses at a table, stocked with wine and beer, next to an open door, through which a male guest may have departed.

I would still be drowsing and weeping through the latest Concord Players production of "Little Women," in which, half a century ago, my mother's friends, each a mother several times over, had valiantly played the teen-age girls.