sleepy

[US]/'sliːpɪ/
[UK]/'slipi/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. feeling the need to sleep; tired.

Phrases & Collocations

feeling sleepy

feel sleepy

Example Sentences

a sleepy flyspeck of a town.

the sleepy heat of the afternoon.

an overripe sleepy pear

a sleepy rural town.

a sleepy little village

too sleepy to follow the sermon.

a sleepy provincial town in southern France

the one-time sleepy world of pensions.

I felt sleepy all day.

she rubbed her sleepy eyes.

he turned off the road into a sleepy little town.

She always has a sleepy expression.

They were sleepy, lionlike-the eyes of a fighting animal.

He held the sleepy child to his bosom.

I felt so sleepy I couldn't stop yawning.

She was so sleepy that she ran into a lamppost.

The cat lay stretched out beside the fire in sleepy content.

a sleepy town transmogrified by the boom into a bustling city;

People who get up early feel virtuous all morning and sleepy all afternoon.

I got sleepy and needed her to spell me for a while at the wheel.

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