Example sentences for: sleepy

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

  • It used to take 24 hours by train, plus a cruel two- or three-hour bus or jeep journey, to reach the sleepy desert town of Dunhuang, in Gansu province.

  • The charming, sleepy town of Serpa rises neatly above the plains, 30 km (18 miles) east of Beja, on the route to Spain.

  • the sleepy arms of his Good Companion"--takes you further back, to Richardson and Pamela , as does this priceless request: " 'Turn over my pretty one, and raise your sweet white bottom in the air.

  • Cushing, alas, is gone, but Burton has cast Hammer stalwarts Christopher Lee in a (too brief) cameo as the burgomaster who dispatches Crane to Sleepy Hollow and Michael Gough (also seen as Alfred in the Batman films) as a one-eyed accountant.

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


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