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.