How to Use sleepy in a Sentence

sleepy

adjective
Definition of sleepynext
Synonyms for sleepynext
  • She felt sleepy and went to bed.
  • When the sun goes down, the South Shore of Lake Tahoe is not a sleepy town.
    — Outside Online, 6 Jan. 2025
  • It’s been a sleepy fall so far, but that all changes for you this month.
    — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Howes and Petersen, sleepy and half dazed, took turns at the wheel on the long drive home.
    — Orval C. Johnson, Outdoor Life, 31 Oct. 2024
  • Then again, San Diego isn’t the same sleepy town, either.
    — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
  • Satchel is thirty-one, with a lanky climber’s build and a sleepy smile.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Henry high-fived the sleepy-eyed kids, who didn’t want the season to end.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Nov. 2021
  • This was a sleepy town that had never seen crimes like this.
    — Megan Vick, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2024
  • The early part of the year is often a bit of a sleepy time for new fiction.
    — John Warner, Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Monday’s mass killing marked the second time the sleepy town has made headlines in the last month.
    — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Students’ yawns turn to smiles; their sleepy eyes light up.
    — Claire Bryan, San Antonio Express-News, 10 June 2022
  • Set up a profile for each part of your day: work time, lunchtime, sleepy time.
    — Evan Selinger, Wired, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Sasha’s sleepy dog Quincy even made a cameo on the album with his snores.
    — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The little girl yawns and closes her eyes, a whisper of a smile on her sleepy face.
    — Cheryl Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Your ruler, the unitive Moon, is soothing your sleepy 12th house.
    — Tarot Astrologers, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
  • And with that amount of firepower even there was no chance of getting sleepy even in the night scenes.
    — Patrick Frater, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Children with the virus may be fussy, sleepy throughout the day and cry without tears.
    — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025
  • With his swoopy chestnut hair, sleepy blue eyes, and god-like jaw, Gabriel ticks all of the boxes of My Type.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 26 Dec. 2022
  • The outcry from the fans in those cities, where seasons go to die, that if sleepy San Diego can do it, why not us?
    — Jay Paris, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The next stop was a cheese shop that her grandmother had loved, in the sleepy border town of San Elizario.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
  • Even when strange things start to happen in his sleepy village.
    — Marta Balaga, Variety, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Such is the state of the union these days that no forum seems too small or too sleepy to be polarized.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Today, the sleepy resort town is still home to a clutch of cool hotels, like the Kanopi House and Geejam.
    — Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 10 Apr. 2023
  • For eyes, use a round tip to pipe brown frosting in small half-circles to make adorably sleepy eyes.
    — Andrea Beck, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Utilities, once a sleepy corner of the stock market, are up 4.15% for the week.
    — Hakyung Kim, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2024
  • But for Trump, backing Wright in a sleepy North Texas race carries some risk.
    — Dallas News, 26 July 2021
  • Feeling sleepy but don’t want to miss New York’s famous ball-drop?
    — Karla Pope, Good Housekeeping, 27 Nov. 2022
  • For the first night, the focus was on Spokane and giving a jolt to a normally sleepy Sunday night in the Lilac City.
    — Tim Booth, ajc, 27 Sep. 2021
  • At one point, a sleepy Pekingese took notice of Alice’s baby doll.
    — Chloe Malle, Vogue, 28 Jan. 2025
  • His Vienna is a sleepy, near-empty town where the world fades away as the night goes on, leaving only Jesse and Céline.
    — Brian Smolensky and James Mercadante, EW.com, 27 Jan. 2025

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