Soporific

When we rested our head on the side of the mat, it had a soporific effect so we had to sit back up again so we could be alert to watch the babies play.

He saw the soldier’s eyes flicker and tremble at his feet in soporific astonishment.

After watching the Pfeesident’s sidekick Victor Matemadanda’s soporific homily on one online television, one gets an abiding feeling that indeed Zimbabwe is a God-forsaken country.

The first half of this season mixed the soporific with the dispiriting until in late July the Mets ripped off a winning streak, and soon fans piled into this handsome stadium by Flushing Bay, bellowing and chanting.

But even when they drift into potentially soporific neo-soul The Internet’s seductive songs are hard to shake off.

This idea was the basis of the "soporific sponge" ("sleep sponge"), introduced by the Salerno school of medicine in the late twelfth century and by Ugo Borgognoni (1180–1258) in the thirteenth century.

Treatment for insomnia in psychiatry dates back to 1869 when chloral hydrate was first used as a soporific.