Sleepy-eyed (Adjective)
Meaning
Ready to fall asleep; "beginning to feel sleepy"; "a sleepy-eyed child with drooping eyelids"; "sleepyheaded students".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- After staying up late studying for her exam, Emily looked sleepy-eyed as she sat in her 8 am class.
- The sleepy-eyed baby began to yawn as his mother rocked him in her arms.
- Sarah rubbed the sand out of her sleepy-eyed face, remembering she still had a meeting at the office in an hour.
- Liam, the sleepy-eyed six-year-old, snuggled under his blankets as his parents tucked him into bed for a morning nap.
- It's 4 am, I've been awake all night and now I feel completely sleepy-eyed.