Example sentences for: sleepy

How can you use “sleepy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • (Delightful, and a bit confounding to we Northerners who can't believe what a sleepy Southern city this still is.)

  • Sleepy Hollow

  • It is the Californian mindset that is responsible for the Seattle Miracle, whereby a sleepy backwater has been transformed into a dynamic entrepreneurial hub and the most livable city in the United States.

  • One bright spot: Robert Colescott, the first African-American artist at Venice, whose paintings, which transform images from Van Gogh and Picasso into sendups of racial stereotypes, are said to add "some spice" to an otherwise "sleepy biennal" (Holland Cotter, the New York Times ).

  • Burton's work in Sleepy Hollow is transporting, but not, it should be said, to the Hudson Valley circa 1799.


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