Sentence examples for sleepyhead from inspiring English sources
The word 'sleepyhead' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to someone who is sleepy, for example: "You need to get up, sleepyhead!"
The geeky-looking Bostonians won over the crowds at the same stage with their melodic synth-pop, to the extent that the dancing crowds were repeating the riff to "Sleepyhead" after they left the stage.
"Hey there, sleepyhead," he says.
He has decided that the wounded man is Tom, that Tom loved Exley to the exclusion of all else and that Exley is therefore the only person who can rescue Tom from permanent sleepyhead status.
"Spring is here!" "I'm hungry!" "Have the flowers blossomed yet?" The last dozing, snoring sleepyhead is the hardest to stir.
Beatle John contains both "Ed Sullivan" John, yodeling harmonies and bending his knees in awkward demi-pliés, and "Revolver" John, acidhead, sleepyhead, drug dormouse, singing in that cold little cocoon voice (Riley calls it "time-frozen") about floating downstream and not wanting to be woken up.
The comatose veteran's current state, according to a nurse who mistakes Miller for a normal boy and soft-pedals reality to protect him: "quite the sleepyhead".
Sleepyheads, groggy from trying to stay awake half of the night, awoke in their beds, suddenly too excited to do anything but run and scream.
Last is Big Brother, the first in a parade of "sleepyheads" whom the rest decide to awaken in turn.
There is New York in all its glory — not just the high school bands emanating oompahs and youthful zest, not just the sleepyheads poking out of windows in Bay Ridge or the Hasids standing and staring in Williamsburg or the people four and five deep in the wall of noise on the East Side of Manhattan.
At the centre of the stage is a huge bed; to one side there is a bathroom, into which a procession of sleepyheads troop to make their daily transformations.
May 25-June 4: "Dreamboats and Sleepyheads" by Charles Allcroft.
