Definition
: heavy with sleep
: inducing slumber
: marked by or suggestive of a state of sleep or lethargy
I hear the slumberous murmer of the wind in the trees all through the night.
I too felt a slumberous influence after watching him half an hour, as he sat thus with his eyes half open, like a cat, winged brother of the cat.
He lay but opened a red eye unsleeping, deep and slowly breathing, slumberous but awake.
I felt pain as he walked by the slumberous summer fields at midnight returning from her arms.
A wicked glow lit a stare that lingered too long on me, a slow, slumberous perusal that made my mouth go dry.
The house was very quiet, and through the curtained window there came to her the soft, slumberous splash of the waves.
She looked at him seductively out of her great, slumberous blue eyes.
Henry turned and looked at the duchess with his slumberous eyes.
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Soporific Example Sentences
Definition
1 a : causing or tending to cause sleep
b : tending to dull awareness or alertness
2 : of, relating to, or marked by sleepiness or lethargy
The soporific effects of the stuffy classroom and the lecturer's droning voice left more than one student fighting to stay awake.
The professor’s boring speech was soporific and had everyone in the audience yawning.
While alcohol is soporific and can help you sleep, it does not take away your problems.
Because of the medicine’s soporific properties, the doctor told me to only take it at bedtime.
There is a soporific effect of eating that makes many people sleepy after every meal.
Although plane trips are usually soporific to me, I managed to stay awake during the ride to San Francisco.
The singer’s voice was soporific and soon had me dreaming about a dark and handsome man.
Everyone was glad when the loud dance music completely altered the soporific tone of the formal event.
To my active daughter, few things are as soporific as watching the game of golf on television.
After taking her soporific prescription, June was asleep within an hour.
Even though I drank five cups of coffee, I still could not stay awake during the soporific presentation.
He is taking a soporific drug for his disease.
A large fire had been burning all day and the atmosphere was soporific.
I found that the silence and the soft pelting sound of raindrops on the window had a soporific effect on me.
One of his officers then broke the soporific silence of the tent.
Through the soporific phase, he fought the battle for wakefulness, which only the very strong could win.
Alcohol is known to be extremely soporific for most people, it does numb the senses, but it does not let your problems go away.
Plane trips are normally soporific in nature, you might manage to stay away, but in the end, the jetlag would make you go to sleep in your hotel.
One of the few things in life that are as soporific as you want is to tell a bedtime story to your children.
When you have a very heavy lunch, it has an automatic soporific effect on your body, something which you cannot get rid of.
The book he was reading acted as a soporific and soon he was fast asleep.
Monday, November 28, 2016
Vicissitudes Example Sentences
Definition:
1 : the quality or state of being changeable
2 a : a favorable or unfavorable event or situation that occurs by chance : a fluctuation of state or condition
b : a difficulty or hardship usually beyond one's control
: a change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant.
The vicissitudes of life strike us all.
A business run by moral agents will not be able to survive the vicissitudes of the marketplace.
The professional writer has to undergo many sad vicissitudes.
He set out the various vicissitudes in addressing the contract.
He had the ability to change with the times and to share the vicissitudes of opinion.
The parental vicissitude I currently have is trying to pay child support for six children.
My vicissitude in college was tackling seven classes and a job.
Though he had many vicissitudes in life, nothing would stop him from becoming an entrepreneur.
Some say that we must go through the vicissitudes in life to become a stronger person.
I love my annoying little brother, but we do have our vicissitudes.
Americans will have their financial vicissitudes in a recession.
Dealing with traffic is a vicissitude of city life.
Against all physical vicissitudes, he still won first place in the 5K run.
One vicissitude of owning a cat is that they shed hair everywhere.
Her vicissitudes in life made it a challenge to finish high school.
I have experienced many vicissitudes in my life, but managed to overcome the difficulties with my positive attitude
I did not know where I was and where was I heading for; my road was engulfed with the darkness of sorrows and vicissitudes.
I could not help reflecting on the strange vicissitudes of human life, and death, which levelled all distinctions between men of high and low degree.
1 : the quality or state of being changeable
2 a : a favorable or unfavorable event or situation that occurs by chance : a fluctuation of state or condition
b : a difficulty or hardship usually beyond one's control
: a change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant.
The vicissitudes of life strike us all.
A business run by moral agents will not be able to survive the vicissitudes of the marketplace.
The professional writer has to undergo many sad vicissitudes.
He set out the various vicissitudes in addressing the contract.
He had the ability to change with the times and to share the vicissitudes of opinion.
The parental vicissitude I currently have is trying to pay child support for six children.
My vicissitude in college was tackling seven classes and a job.
Though he had many vicissitudes in life, nothing would stop him from becoming an entrepreneur.
Some say that we must go through the vicissitudes in life to become a stronger person.
I love my annoying little brother, but we do have our vicissitudes.
Americans will have their financial vicissitudes in a recession.
Dealing with traffic is a vicissitude of city life.
Against all physical vicissitudes, he still won first place in the 5K run.
One vicissitude of owning a cat is that they shed hair everywhere.
Her vicissitudes in life made it a challenge to finish high school.
I have experienced many vicissitudes in my life, but managed to overcome the difficulties with my positive attitude
I did not know where I was and where was I heading for; my road was engulfed with the darkness of sorrows and vicissitudes.
I could not help reflecting on the strange vicissitudes of human life, and death, which levelled all distinctions between men of high and low degree.
Friday, November 18, 2016
Lambent Example Sentences
Definition:
1 : playing lightly on or over a surface
2 : softly bright or radiant
3 : marked by lightness or brilliance especially of expression
"It's an early May morning and the air is cool and still and filled with lambent light."
Clarke sent him a curious keen glance of intense and almost lambent inquiry, but he did not notice it.
She glanced at him with all the sweetness and tenderness of her great love lambent in her wistful sea-blue eyes.
1 : playing lightly on or over a surface
2 : softly bright or radiant
3 : marked by lightness or brilliance especially of expression
"It's an early May morning and the air is cool and still and filled with lambent light."
Clarke sent him a curious keen glance of intense and almost lambent inquiry, but he did not notice it.
She glanced at him with all the sweetness and tenderness of her great love lambent in her wistful sea-blue eyes.
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Commutation Example Sentences
Definition:
law : a change of a punishment to a less severe one
: exchange, trade
: replacement; specifically : a substitution of one form of payment or charge for another
: a change of a legal penalty or punishment to a lesser one
He appealed for a commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment.
This board may allow commutation or diminution of sentence for good behaviour, meritorious services or exemplary conduct.
I was foolish enough to leave my commutation ticket at home.
The prisoner is expected to be executed within days, now that his request for commutation has been refused.
law : a change of a punishment to a less severe one
: exchange, trade
: replacement; specifically : a substitution of one form of payment or charge for another
: a change of a legal penalty or punishment to a lesser one
He appealed for a commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment.
This board may allow commutation or diminution of sentence for good behaviour, meritorious services or exemplary conduct.
I was foolish enough to leave my commutation ticket at home.
The prisoner is expected to be executed within days, now that his request for commutation has been refused.
Saturday, November 5, 2016
Cavalcade Example Sentences
Definition
1 a : a procession of riders or carriages
b : a procession of vehicles or ships
2 : a dramatic sequence or procession : series
He felt it not only from the sound of the hoofs of the approaching cavalcade, but because as he drew near everything grew brighter, more joyful, more significant, and more festive around him.
The president’s cavalcade included several sports utility vehicles, six police cars, and a police motorcycle unit.
When the celebrity pulled up at the hotel, he was part of a cavalcade of luxury vehicles.
The parade will be brought to a close by a group of veterans driving a cavalcade of antique vehicles.
When the cavalcade of tanks rolled into the city, it was followed by soldiers who were eager to end the war.
Citizens lined the streets to see the prince’s cavalcade on his wedding day.
We saw cavalcade of cars on the street yesterday.
Ferguson and Kennedy leaned over and saw an immense cavalcade.
He was still watching the approaching cavalcade intently, and smiling to himself.
The cavalcade arrived at the hotel.
1 a : a procession of riders or carriages
b : a procession of vehicles or ships
2 : a dramatic sequence or procession : series
He felt it not only from the sound of the hoofs of the approaching cavalcade, but because as he drew near everything grew brighter, more joyful, more significant, and more festive around him.
The president’s cavalcade included several sports utility vehicles, six police cars, and a police motorcycle unit.
When the celebrity pulled up at the hotel, he was part of a cavalcade of luxury vehicles.
The parade will be brought to a close by a group of veterans driving a cavalcade of antique vehicles.
When the cavalcade of tanks rolled into the city, it was followed by soldiers who were eager to end the war.
Citizens lined the streets to see the prince’s cavalcade on his wedding day.
We saw cavalcade of cars on the street yesterday.
Ferguson and Kennedy leaned over and saw an immense cavalcade.
He was still watching the approaching cavalcade intently, and smiling to himself.
The cavalcade arrived at the hotel.
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