Used in a Sentence

sleepy

How to use sleepy in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for sleepy.

Editorial note

You get sleepy at the peak, "starving" at the trough... like a repeating sine wave.

Examples15
Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

ready to fall asleep; "beginning to feel sleepy"; "a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids"; "sleepyheaded students"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of sleepy gathered in one view.

adjective

ready to fall asleep; "beginning to feel sleepy"; "a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids"; "sleepyheaded students"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sleepy.

adjective

ready to fall asleep; "beginning to feel sleepy"; "a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids"; "sleepyheaded students"

Example sentences

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You get sleepy at the peak, "starving" at the trough... like a repeating sine wave.

2

Red wine makes me sleepy, so I asked for a beer. A few minutes later, someone at my table asked me "How did you get a beer?"

3

I think some would characterize me as "a sleepy guy" and I do have to be careful while driving late at night. I don't take it on weekends, or vacations.

4

* Close the screens and get a book if you don't feel really sleepy. This habit helps the circadian cycle in my personal experience.

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Meanwhile a sleepy hacker is waking up and making breakfast in the kitchen. The climate is wonderful.

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15 or 20 minutes later 2 officers arrived with my friend in his pajamas looking sleepy. He let them in and they crept about the store pistols drawn.

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Good heavens, almost the exact same thing happened to me, and I live in a sleepy, peaceful little town. It's startling to think that this kind of treatment is only a phone call away, for everyone.

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Then, as I reached the end of the line and saw the domain name, my tired and sleepy face broke into a full-bodied grin. fish is my most-favorite tongue-in-cheek technical blogger ever.

9

Although I'd become sleepy and groggy at the ends of the "days", I'd be sufficiently alert immediately after waking to be able to do real math thinking. So I switched to 6 x 28 hour day weeks.

10

I started parking at the local truck stop, no locals there, but now I had to worry about a sleepy truck driver backing into me in the middle of the night. Breakfast at the 24hr diner there was delicious though.

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But they're surely more secure than unlocked home mailboxes, especially in sleepy suburban neighbourhoods where no one is home for most of the day. I don't disagree that Canada Post could likely save money in other ways.

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Meanwhile, at the other companies where CEO was too sleepy to make good decisions because he was up all night helping customers configure Windows... well, we don't hear those stories, because they folded.

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The solution for me -- believe it or not, call me crazy -- it to go to sleep when I'm feeling sleepy and tired. I tend to read in bed; at least an hour before I want to actually sleep, I'll read. Sometimes I get to the point where I can't keep my eyes open after 30 mins in which case I pack away the book or kindle and go to sleep. Sometimes I read a bit longer than the prescribed one hour until I get to the point where I'm sleepy enough to go to sleep.

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You wouldn't expect a family owned pizza shop in a small, sleepy Ohio town to be a hive of scum and villainy but that's what installing a computerized ordering system discovered. I had worked off and on through college at this same pizza shop and about midway through my time there they switched from paper written tickets to a lightpen based ordering system.

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Don't try this unless you've actually done some measuring and testing; overconfidence and biases are more common than tests: > Still, while its tempting to believe we can train ourselves to be among the five-hour group we cant, Dinges says or that we are naturally those five-hour sleepers, consider a key finding from Van Dongen and Dingess study: after just a few days, the four- and six-hour group reported that, yes, they were slightly sleepy. But they insisted they had adjusted to their new state.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use sleepy in a sentence?

You get sleepy at the peak, "starving" at the trough... like a repeating sine wave.

What does sleepy mean?

ready to fall asleep; "beginning to feel sleepy"; "a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids"; "sleepyheaded students"

What part of speech is sleepy?

sleepy is commonly used as adjective.