Somnolent

Especially did he love to lie on his back and have his sleek, cream-coloured throat stroked gently while he purred in somnolent satisfaction. ❋ Lucy Maud (1921)

Also, the patient was getting a little somnolent, which is never a good sign when you are worried about hypoxemia / hypercarbia, so I figured it would be best if a nurse accompanied her. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Now I have to look up "somnolent" in the dictionary. ❋ Unknown (2009)

 It means tired and lazy-sort of like "somnolent". ❋ Unknown (2010)

S----, a comfortable place very slightly disturbed by the fact that it had been already the scene of four battles; there was just this effect, as it seemed to me, that the affairs of the day were carried on with a kind of somnolent indifference .... ❋ Hugh Walpole (1912)

It did not come; but I fell into a kind of somnolent state, in which I suddenly felt as though I were sinking in swiftly flowing water. ❋ Richard Wagner (1848)

In contrast to Meg Whitman, whose Friday night speech to delegates may be found in the dictionary under "somnolent," Fiorina's talk was energetic, punchy and well-crafted. ❋ Flap (2010)

It isn't the weight of history I feel when I look at his ­paintings: it's a kind of somnolent, ❋ Unknown (2009)

They led me through somnolent, burlap-covered streets and along crumbling mud-brick facades, past half-starved cows and goats hugging the shade of collapsed walls, to a small, round, stuccoed former palace with overhanging wooden balconies. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He is a quiet man; yet when he is at ease, with his short legs outstretched and a blackened pipe in his thin lips, and perhaps a drink at his elbow, he is like a somnolent cat who still in the wink of an eye could kill a mouse. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Francis used the same measured tone and somnolent cadence as he did when talking to colleagues or students; even so, one newspaper described the morning as being infused with a sense of “fanfare and drama far more typical of a Hollywood premiere than a medical meeting.” ❋ Seth Mnookin (2011)

Or maybe the burlesquing hepcat Spaniards will roll one by the somnolent Coasters. shedders on 9 May 2010 ❋ Unknown (2010)

Her star rose when she allied with Gifford Miller, who became speaker in 2002 and made Moskowitz the chair of the long-somnolent education committee. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But spending more is the one thing Obama cannot do, because of the deals House and Senate Republicans have forced on him, and because of a typically passive, somnolent media that does not have nerve enough to come out and call it like it is. ❋ Robert Davey (2011)

He's not selling himself -- there's not much to sell, given that his personality resides entirely in the somnolent woodchuck squatting on his head -- but selling an idea. ❋ Alexandra Petri (2011)

Scalia disparaged a reference to testimony before what he called "an undetermined number of likely somnolent congressmen." ❋ Unknown (2011)

[After the] sex, [Kissa] was [in great] somnolence. ❋ Hentai Samurai (2018)