[ adv ] in a sleepy manner <adv.all> the two children who were snuggled sleepily in the back of the car
Sleepily \Sleep"i*ly\, adv. In a sleepy manner; drowsily.
The Roman troops, roused from their barracks in the second watch of night, sleepily formed ranks in the compound alongside the towering Fortress Antonia in the military-ruled colony of Judea.
The seven-year-old, wearing a Flintstones T-shirt, has no comment, while his younger brother nuzzles sleepily against Mrs. Hamdan's breast.
Bored policemen shoo monkeys and glance sleepily at closed-circuit television cameras as they enforce a curfew in this town whose name has become a battle cry in India's latest political and religious crisis.