adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a slow, somnolent folk song
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her somnolent black eyes and tenderly pursed pink lips intrude upon the eggshell delicacy of her face with the most delicate affection.
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His somnolent reaction was to twist half around-exposing his left ankle and leg.
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His unquiet personality could not outface the somnolent arrogance of the greatest city in the world.
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Like his compatriot Nelson Piquet, Emerson in the cockpit is a somnolent cat.
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Sometimes the tunes are ethereal and somnolent like Brian Eno after a whole bottle of Actifed.
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The picnic lunch which had been eaten immediately on arrival had rendered some of the elders somnolent .
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The port lay somnolent , the shops were shut.