Example sentences for: sleepy

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

  • Still others were given by neighboring tribes and, sometimes, even when the literal sense is known the connotations are unclear: for example, the Dakota name for the Iowa (Ayuhwa) Sleepy Ones; the Blackfoot name for the Kainah , a division of the Blackfoot, (Ah-kai-nah) Many Chiefs.

  • It could have been A Walk on the Moon , My Son the Fanatic , The End of the Affair , Dick , Sleepy Hollow , Run Lola Run , Toy Story 2 , Princess Mononoke , Cookie's Fortune , American Movie , or the barely-noticed black comedy Six Ways to Sunday . It could have been--whatever their problems-- The Sixth Sense , American Beauty , The Blair Witch Project (backlash schmacklash, it scared me), October Sky , or The Matrix . It could have been a poignantly silly comic-book movie that I seem to be alone in loving: Mystery Men .

  • The region retains a sleepy medieval air.

  • As a younger man, he cheered on the 1974 revolution that liberated Portugal from a long, sleepy dictatorship.

  • Once a sleepy capital with little to do but sightsee by day, Beijing has opened considerably to the outside world since the days of Chairman Mao.


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