soporific in English
the motion of the train had a somewhat soporific effect
The meal was light - perhaps eggs and a posset (hot milk fortified with sugar, spices, eggs, and wine, brandy, or ale, and on one notable occasion with additional soporifics by Lady Macbeth).
Use "soporific" in a sentence
1. His voice had an soporific effect.
2. This drug is benignly soporific.
3. I found his style of lecturing soporific.
4. I dozed off during the soporific music.
5. Soporific or just plain asleep commentators.
6. His voice had an almost soporific effect.
7. They certainly had soporific effect upon the Flopsy Bunnies!
8. Even the most witty economists sometimes fall into this soporific mode.
9. I often have to take soporific before I go to bed.
10. Booze was soporific, the brain was programmed to zero, it curled up and slept.
11. After trudging for some distance, his slow steady steps acted as a soporific.
12. Kyphi was always burnt after sunset for its effects were soporific and intoxicating.
13. Providence out of pity for mankind, has instilled a soporific charm into all tedious things.
14. The warmth of the room and the monotony of the speaker's voice grew soporific.
15. At the start, everyone was respectful towards him, listening carefully to his soporific explanations.
16. TYPICAL USE : After his soporific speech for an hour, the speaker received no applause from the audience.
17. Such detours are well worth making and can greatly reduce the soporific boredom of motorway driving.
18. With his shaved head and soporific disposition, Weller comes across as a kind of Kung Futon.
19. Soporific parliamentary debates now make essential viewing, and posters and T-shirts bearing his features sell fast.
20. After her disturbed night, she supine position and the soporific effect of air and sun were impossible to resist.
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22. Cantor had underestimated the soporific effect of the six-course dinner, the two wines and the glass of port.
23. But given the rise in the number of sleep-disorder clinics and the sale of soporific drugs, even this one fundamental outlet for aloneness is in trouble.
24. In Lavengro (or is it Romany Rye?) there is an impossible character, a victim of insomnia, who finds that a volume of Wordsworth's poems is the only sure soporific; but that was Borrow s malice.