Sleepy in a sentence (esp. good sentence like quote, proverb...)

Antonym: wakeful. Similar words: sleep, go to sleep, fall asleep, sleeve, flee, glee, fleet, isle. Meaning: ['slɪːpɪ]

adj. ready to fall asleep.

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61 Five years later, the international oil market is serene, even sleepy.

62 The religious fracas shook the house, our sleepy old house where no one debated principles.

63 Into this silence, Cherry was singing: When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls.

64 The town had settled to being itself again, sleepy, clannish, introverted.

65 Inside he found a sleepy yeoman and a cooler dispensing Stateside water.

66 She felt sleepy rather than tired, as a result, she told herself, of having had so little sleep of late.

67 I wondered what colour his eyes were beneath those gorgeous sleepy lids.

68 How couldst thou preach of heaven and hell in such a careless, sleepy manner?

69 How do we go about capturing greater market share against sleepy competitors?

70 An hour later, when it was properly dark, he turned off the road into a sleepy little town.

71 He was too sleepy to form specific questions and answers, and too tense to get to sleep.

72 He was sleepy now, he was resting. Let him have his sleep out.

73 Attica is a sleepy, up-state village that holds the largest maximum-security prison in New York State.

74 In the hall a few sleepy serfs cleared away the debris left from the evening meal.

75 It was a sleepy place, as laid back as a flying field could be.

76 To reach the centre visitors take a boat from a quiet Buddhist monastery across a sleepy brown river.

77 The medicine was supposed to make him sleepy, but it had the opposite effect.

78 There was a trickle of traffic, now, and she overtook the sleepy drivers with an almost reckless haste.

79 At first it looks no different from the hundreds of other sleepy fishing villages along the shoreline.

80 The warmth of the sun was making them all sleepy.

81 It's no easy task getting three sleepy children out of the car and into the house.

82 The whole thing came on me so sudden and I was so sleepy.

83 The film's adolescent hero becomes an assistant at a sleepy railway station.

84 She was coming round after her operation,[http://sentencedict.com/sleepy.html] but she still felt dizzy and very sleepy.

85 As the students are talking, a wave of soft, vague light, of sleepy distraction, passes over Primo.

86 The sleepy snakes lie wreathed around themselves or slither through the hoops of their own skin, their hanks of hemp.

87 We arrived at the hotel late at night, and were too sleepy to notice how beautiful it was.

88 Some had been shot while others spent their time in a sleepy town.

89 They seemed confused as to what was going on, but were too sleepy to make too loud an objection.

90 She'd been so tired, so bloated and sleepy with food.