Sentence examples for drowsing from inspiring English sources

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

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.

And these pink spatters, these crumbled parlor doilies, these milkweed blossoms fade as if antique, and the milkweed does not report on the condition of its leaves, the height of its flowers, its life without bureaucracy, nor does the lilac filtering the mentholated air, or the bee drowsing on the sill after straining through the broken window screen like Rilke wheedling his way into a palace.

It must have been the spirits that I drank last night, it must have been that I was drowsing, I'd been tired all day long.

Now I envy the bees drowsing in their blossoms,drunk on the mouthfeel.For them, there is no distance between the necessary and the good.Why do you keep hitting mewhen I'm already dead?

Mr. Feather might have been deaf, or he might have been drowsing, or it might have been that simply getting up to answer the phone was more than he could manage right then.

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".

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

He doesn't want to drowse off and miss the answer to Bening's question.

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