somnolence

IPA: sˈɑmnʌɫʌns

Examples of "somnolence" in Sentences

Thus, they could not understand his excessive somnolence in the forenoon, nor his excessive activity at night.
Karen occasionally talked in her sleep, muttering and mumbling, no words that he could decipher, the language of somnolence.
But what happens in the body to cause this post-feast dip—known as postprandial somnolence in the medical community—isn't clear.
Mr. Ventnor sat in an armchair on the opposite side of the fire; and, finding a kind of somnolence creeping over him, pinched himself.
Though the movie is endeavoring to rouse the youth of a nation out of some kind of somnolence, it still adheres to a retrograde movie morality out of 30s-era Hollywood.
She underwent what was fashionably known in those days as a cure de sommeil, a treatment that involved being pumped so full of tranquilizers she was “in a constant state of somnolence.”