adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
quiet/sleepy (= one where there is not a lot of activity )
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Downham was a sleepy little village, with a road barely wide enough for one car.
sleepy (= very quiet, with not much happening )
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Johnson grew up in the sleepy retirement town of Asheville.
sleepy/tired
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His eyes looked sleepy.
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Her hair was a mess and her eyes were tired.
sleepy/tired ( also weary literary )
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He rubbed his tired eyes and yawned.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
too
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They seemed confused as to what was going on, but were too sleepy to make too loud an objection.
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He was too sleepy to form specific questions and answers, and too tense to get to sleep.
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But she is still too sleepy for visitors.
■ NOUN
town
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Edwards throughout seemed to be doing little more than the droning clergy in sleepy towns did all along.
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Some had been shot while others spent their time in a sleepy town .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Aren't you sleepy ?" "No, I took a nap this afternoon."
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It's no easy task getting three sleepy children out of the car and into the house.
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It was a sleepy provincial hotel, not used to having more than two people staying there at any one time.
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She headed for the High Street, the only lively spot in the sleepy little town.
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Sticklepath is a sleepy little town right in the heart of the Devonshire countryside.
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Ten years ago, this was a sleepy fishing village.
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We arrived at the hotel late at night, and were too sleepy to notice how beautiful it was.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But having driven through this sleepy Cambridgeshire backwater this week, I sincerely hope they were ousted from office and then shot.
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Five years later, the international oil market is serene, even sleepy .
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He cast sleepy eyes toward the door to his bedroom.
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I was beginning to feel sleepy and I began to sing, softly, to myself.
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Once I said to Claudine that her house was sleepy .
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The imaginative and nimble have registered lots of famous corporate names before their sleepy owners realized what was happening.
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The next afternoon Mornat returned with two fat and sleepy lizards.
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The religious fracas shook the house, our sleepy old house where no one debated principles.