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sleepy

[ slee-pee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, sleep·i·er, sleep·i·est.

sleepy

/ ˈsliːpɪ /

Origin of sleepy¹

Middle English word dating back to 1175–1225; sleep, -y ¹

The film helps to draw scores of visitors to this sleepy river town year after year.

BIRKIANI, Georgia — Time seems to stop in this sleepy Georgian village high in the green mountains of the Pankisi Gorge.

Last year Fox gifted the world with the “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” retelling we never knew we needed.

But it was a shadow of its former self: sleepy, unprofitable, and not particularly confident about its complicated past.

It turned out that I had dozens of sleep interruptions during the night, which likely caused me to feel sleepy in the morning.

Sondershausen is a dreamy, sleepy place, with so little life about it that you hardly realize there are any people there at all.

He ate as many as he wanted and then, as he always felt sleepy after he had eaten, he thought he would lie down and have a nap.

Her eyes gleamed bright and intense, with no sleepy shadows, as they looked into his.

So, although he was tired and sleepy from the excitement of the day, he began to tell of his visit to Manila when a young man.

Not a word was spoken, for the driver had grown sleepy, and Sikes was in no mood to lead him into conversation.

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