At dawn we crept into a thick bush, but the ground was damp and cold, and our sleepiness had left us.
The cold kept me from getting sleepy, but when I got warm from walking my sleepiness grew overpowering.
He wrapped himself up in his great-coat, for the night was chilly, and had it not been for the thought that Milena had fled with Vranic, sleepiness would have overcome him.
Little by little sleepiness and the fumes of the wine overpowered each single man, so that in the small hours almost all the guests were stretched on the mats that strewed the floor, fast asleep.
His brain had been rather muddled by sleepiness and brandy, and he had hardly been thinking about anything.
A neurotic with a strong inferiority complex was overwhelmed by sleepiness every time he encountered a defeat of a sexual or egotistic nature.
I personally observed two cases in which sudden fits of sleepiness could be interpreted as an escape from reality.
In many cases, however, the sleepiness may be totally lacking.
Sleepiness almost always appears then and lasts as long as the pressure is exerted.
In abnormal cases, on the other hand, we see the duration of sleep considerably prolonged and the onset of sleepinessappearing at times when complete wakefulness is usually the rule.
Thus the thoughts by which I meditated upon thee were like the efforts of one who would awake, but being overpowered with sleepiness is soon asleep again.
The sublime scenery would have impressed me much, in other circumstances; but my sleepiness and fatigue rendered me insensible to everything around me.
Thus we went on, and as often as the kafila by their dulness and sleepiness seemed to require it, or perhaps to keep himself awake, he entertained the company and himself with a song.
When I returned home I fell asleep standing; it wad the deadsleepiness of a child fatigued by a long journey, against which it is futile to struggle, and I was carried to my bed.
The ladies glanced at him affectionately and deferentially; he was gently scolded at times for over-working himself, the sleepiness which nowadays frequently overtook him in all sorts of places being attributed to excess of genius and zeal.
To make heavy with sleepiness or imperfect sleep; to make dull or stupid.
Now that the Sloth was obliged to work eight hours a day, the weight of its constant and catching sleepiness was taken away, and the people set to work in good earnest.
I did explain, didn't I, that the Great Sloth's sleepinessreally was catching, like measles?
Am I to be accused of inordinate sleepiness at five in the morning?
This ring made her give a little start, and took away the sleepiness which was stealing over her.
The sleepinessis unlike that of Belladonna, Nux vomica, Sepia or Sulphur, occurring early in the evening and characterized by stretching and yawning.
Ramirez Tovar's clinic, suffering for 17 days with malaise, loss of appetite, sleepiness and fever.
Church and school are visited by but few, and even of these the teachers complain of their great sleepiness and the want of all eagerness to learn.
It is not all weariness or sleepiness that maketh sleep lawful or needful; for some is contracted by laziness, and some by many diseases, and some by other constant causes which make men almost always weary.
Headaches andsleepiness followed, but there was never any complete loss of consciousness of memory.
He said he suffered from intense headache, weariness, and sleepiness after an attack.
It was at that moment that the howl of a wolf sounded somewhere near the house, and Pam’s sleepiness vanished as if it had never been.
Immediately the dog rose to its feet and stood growling, while Sophy, who had been drifting into deeper slumber, also rose and rubbed her eyes to get the sleepiness out of them.
He was still toiling away at his desk with a towel round his head; she could almost have smiled at the ludicrous mixture of grief and sleepiness on his face, had not her own heart been so loaded with care and sadness.
Certainly Helmstone on the east and Westport on the west had managed to eclipse it altogether, and its peaceful sleepiness made the dormouse comparison by no means inapt.
The total result of medical knowledge of this disease is that it is impossible to doubt that the sleepiness is due to intoxication produced by the poison of the trypanosome.
These fits of sleepiness become longer and deeper, until they reach a comatose condition from which it is almost impossible to arouse the patient.
The other objections of Claparède, such as the fact that sleepiness is induced by exercise in the open air, or that excess of sleep itself produces sleepiness, are not really incompatible with the theory of auto-intoxication.
But, if the natural course of events be not obstructed, the stage of mere sleepiness is soon passed, and the introductory stage of sleep is entered.
One by one the senses fall asleep, and long before the final cessation of their activity, sleepiness hinders their function.
During this period the phenomena of simple sleepiness become exaggerated to such a degree that the attitude of repose is assumed without effort if the body be permitted to follow the natural inclination of its different members.
Sleepiness is worse in some ways, though not so bad for the other people.
Mannix retained, in spite of his sleepiness and his sensation of grime, a slight amount of self-control.
Phil, who had been roused from his sleepiness by having a wet dishcloth tucked firmly round his neck by Miles.
Mr. Selincourt eagerly, his sleepinessvanishing as if by magic.
Through her sleepiness she knew that voice of his; it meant one of his pleased moods.
She trusts entirely to strong coffee and the near flare of the gaslight to combat the natural sleepiness which follows a hard day's work begun at eight o'clock every morning.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sleepiness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
