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drowsy - use in sentences
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- feel: Answer C will help you work off a few calories and perk you up however you may still feel a bit drowsy.
Modifying Another Word
- slightly: Whilst the needles are in place, you may well feel pleasantly relaxed or slightly drowsy.
- very: I feel very drowsy all of a sudden.. .
- too: Ive tried them in the past and they make me too drowsy during the day time.
- little: You remain conscious all the time, although you may be a little drowsy, and any treatment given causes you no discomfort.
- rather: He'd had to get up early for this flight, and he started to feel rather drowsy.
- really: We kept speaking to him to keep him awake as he was becoming really drowsy.
Used with adjective complement
- feel: I feel very drowsy all of a sudden.. .
- become: This medicine may cause some people to become drowsy, dizzy, or less alert than they are normally.
- get: After the first injection I felt myself getting drowsy, then there was a funny taste in my mouth.
- grow: Caroline snuggled against Gordon's shoulder and gradually grew drowsy in the twilight.
- seem: She had been reasonably fine on arrival at the nursing home, but now seemed very drowsy.
Modifies a noun
- feeling: Gelsemium: Dizzy & drowsy feeling with a blocked nose.
- driver: Still offers years drowsy driver when reducing commercial vehicle.
- state: Get into a drowsy state by sitting or lying comfortably.
- pain: My head aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My wrist.
- patient: As a general rule, it should be possible to easily rouse the drowsy patient and be possible to maintain verbal contact with them.
- heart: Strike my drowsy heart with the spell of youth!
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