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• s  inclined to or marked by drowsiness
  the sound had a somnolent effect

• John's closest friends are the Boston Public Library's somnolent pigeons.
• Researchers reported in Science that the flies are somnolent mostly at night and active during daylight hours.
• The mansion's colonnaded porch faces the somnolent Wicomico River, which flows past a placid pond and a white summerhouse.

• slumberous
• slumbery
• slumbrous

News & Articles

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• Bank Employee Falls Asleep On Keyboard, Transfers €222,222,222.22 By Mistake
  Think only coked up and hyper hedgefund traders pose a systemic risk? As this AFP story reveals, somnolent, undercaffeinated tellers can be just as threatening to the global flow of funds. A "German bank employee fell asleep on his keyboard and accidentally transformed a minor transfer into a 222 million euro ($293 million) order, a court heard Monday. The Hessen labour court heard that the man ...
  June 10, 2013 - Zero Hedge

Quotes

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• Skip Prosser in Winston-Salem Journal (registration)
  As long as I've been doing this, I don't know if I've ever had a team look so somnolent in the first half,Coach Skip Prosser said.