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Sleepily

Sleepily \Sleep"i*ly\, adv. In a sleepy manner; drowsily.

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sleepily

adv. In a sleepy manner

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sleepily

adv. in a sleepy manner; "the two children who were snuggled sleepily in the back of the car"

Usage examples of "sleepily".

The Amar began stirring, getting up, moving slowly, sleepily toward their high house for the few remaining hours of dark.

Sally Carrol Happer, resting her chin on her arm, and her arm on an old window-seat, gazed sleepily down over the spangled dust whence the heat waves were rising for the first time this spring.

The middle-aged handicap hurdler plodding sleepily round the ring was the third Axminster horse I had ridden during the week, and I had already grown to appreciate the sleekness and slickness of his organization.

Leaving her julep glass on the floor of the balcony, she returned sleepily to her bed.

Miss Amelia yawned sleepily, but Lymon was restless and she did not suggest that they close up for the night.

His brother officers rated him a very good fellow, but nicknamed him, in affectionate derision, Noddy Dauntry, to which he raised not the smallest objection, merely smiling sleepily, and saying that he never had been one of the downy ones.

Peckover relapsed into whispering discontentedly to herself--now and then looking towards the bookcase, where young Thorpe was sitting sleepily, with a volume of engravings on his knee.

He stretched sleepily under the confines of his seatbelt and turned to Turney with his apology.

Zebras and antelope grazed near us, unalarmed by a dark-maned lion watching sleepily from a little hill.

Sleepily, she explained that Rhani had decided she wanted to go to Sovka, three hundred and fifty kilometers north, and had instructed Amri to wake her pilot up.

Minutes later, the Baluchi clambered sleepily out of his cab and came over for tea.

She sighed without knowing that she had done so, and Vassily looked across at Vron, who gazed sleepily from the middle of the daybed, his eyes a lighter shade than the green velvet.

In a few minutes Camden had been returned sleepily to the foyer, Miss Hardin made ready and all doors closed.

The cat roused itself as a matter of protocol and arched lazily, politely frizzing the fui just behind its snake-shaped head, and when the dust had settled and the gunpowdery smoke had drifted across the yard, the animal sat down, sleepily closed its eyes, and commenced purring as it gently kneaded the dusty earth.

Sophie looked at Calcifer instead, sleepily flickering among rosy logs with his orange eyes almost shut.