Then the clock gathered its hands together at the figure XII, and Trevor crept sleepily but protestingly to bed and dropped into heavy slumber the moment his head touched the pillow.
His gaze encountered Trevor’s and he smiled sleepily and stretched himself.
We watched with wonder a battery clank out into the night, and then returned sleepily to the wharf-side.
The sails filled, the ship gathered way, and the waking sea began to murmursleepily of home to the ears of men.
The good-nights of birds came sleepily from the dim garden; there was a stir of laggard bees among the flowers; and pride of summer reigned for its little spell with these storm-driven children of the moor.
The cows were lying quiet in their stalls; the place was fragrant with their breath, and every now and then there sounded a faint rattling through the gloom as one or other fidgetted sleepily on her chain.
One wintry, blustering, dark night in July, as I stood sleepily out of the rain under the break of the poop something resembling an ostrich dashed up the gangway.
The scuppers of the brig gurgled softly all together when the water rising against her sides subsided sleepily with a low wash, as if playing about an immovable rock.
Somewhere in the world the white cock was crowing sleepily when we put off, stiff and soaked and shivering.
The night was very calm; the quiet waters crooned sleepily about the boat.
The Kid, aroused by my laughter, askedsleepily what in thunder tickled me.
I stumbled sleepily out of bed, and, slipping on my dressing-gown, admitted Lorian.
England seems to be no more sleepily resting on her laurels, as she was some twenty years ago.
I heard him, but did not comprehend, sitting there sleepily unfolding the scrawled telegram.
He had uttered his habitual phrases in his usual placid, breath-saving voice and stood my hard, inquisitive stare sleepily without as much as a wink.
That intolerable cub shuffled about so sleepily and lolled against the rails in such a slack, improper fashion that I came down on him sharply.
About a dozen cottages, some frame and the others of native grass, nestled sleepily in the shade here and there.
What a darling kitten," she continued, stroking the soft head as the black mite blinked sleepily at her and stretched out a tiny paw.
She closed her eyes sleepily and didn't even trouble to open them when she felt herself lifted from the sofa and carried up-stairs.
It wakened Alison, and I had the satisfaction of hearing her sleepily inquire if I had caught that rat yet?
Muff, rousing from his slumbers, came up sleepily to be taken some notice of.
One of the soldiers came from a house, sleepily yawning and stretching himself, and presently his eyes lit upon the huge form of Cap'n Bill hastening along the top of the wall.
Cap'n Bill thought it must be a giant alligator, at first, it was so big; but he looked at them sleepily and did not seem at all dangerous.
He closed his eyessleepily and resumed his dreams.
I guess these are private preserves," sleepily commented Billy, "for no other foot has trailed us but the boss and the black.
The answer was embodied in a pair of long, sinuous shapes, tawny-hided and slather-jawed, sleepily stretched full length in the cuddyhouse of the little craft.
He really did not hear what was said to him; he only sighed with relief when it was over and he was allowed to go up-stairs and tumble sleepily into bed.
He now began to call the different bird notes and was sleepily answered from bush and tree.
Me, too," sleepily from Lucy, who was trying to keep awake long enough to find out what it all meant.
The grasshoppers chirped lazily in the warm grasses, and the toads blinked sleepily under the shadows of the steps, scarcely snapping at the flies as they danced by on silver wings.
Dorothea's eyes made effort to open, but sleepily they closed again.
Overhead the birds chirped sleepily and one by one the stars came out.
So I kept myself to myself and did no more any exploits, save that I did my duty as sentry wheresoever I might be ordered to go, and that I performed as any malingerer might, and as sleepily as might well be.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sleepily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
