He was in somnolence after a tiring weekend.    From LearnThat.org. 

Mr. Ventnor sat in an armchair on the opposite side of the fire; and, finding a kind of somnolence creeping over him, pinched himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Tales] Reference

A sense of peaceful somnolence settled over the craft.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drums of Autumn]

Another described "somnolence and respiratory problems.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Medtronic Gets FDA Warning On Two Pumps] Reference

Yet the people remain in a state of stupor and somnolence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making of a Zombie Culture] Reference

L'association à l'alcool majore les risques de somnolence.    From Wordnik.com.  [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference

This is achieved in a somnolence chamber at the edge of the Tarmac.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fly Paris Hilton Airlines] Reference

Thus he had allowed the slothful giant to lapse back into somnolence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miko]

In-flight somnolence may be the most controversial aspect of New Flight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fly Paris Hilton Airlines] Reference

His nibs; Geoff Hoon was the main speaker, somnolence was all about us. mitch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference

Can we awaken from our collective somnolence, ignorance and enervating distractaholism?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who and What Is Buddha, Really?] Reference

Nervous symptoms, somnolence, coma, spasms, convulsions and paralysis are of common occurrence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

There was a deep lounge of the softest brown leather with somnolence drifting about it like a haze.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference

“The lake of my mind, unbroken by oars, heaves placidly and soon sinks into an oily somnolence.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Waves] Reference

Five years ago I found it certainly was hurting me, causing my hand to shake and producing somnolence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life] Reference

The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their arrival, in terrified somnolence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Miserables] Reference

‘I wish, then, after this somnolence to sparkle, many-faceted under the light of my friends’ faces.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Waves] Reference

But despite his seeming somnolence, the sound of a snapping twig would be enough to rouse him instantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Triumph of Souls]

One day -- it had never occurred to him before -- he suggested that they consult a specialist in somnolence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Skookum Chuck Fables Bits of History, Through the Microscope] Reference

Sleep centers with "pods" for controlled somnolence are beginning to dot our urban landscape like McDonald's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Late Night with Richie] Reference

In its demonization of Jews, Nazi Germany bet on the moral somnolence of the German people, and it bet right.    From Wordnik.com.  [America, Is Your Soul Dead?] Reference

If we must go out at unusual hours to get it, we shall go, in spite of after-dinner nap or evening somnolence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861] Reference

When the Siamese finally struggled out of their somnolence, he offered them a morsel, but they were not interested.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cat Who Came To Breakfast]

As a physiologist he believed in the artificial placation of malignant agencies chiefly operative during somnolence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

Please note that even in my somnolence, I did realize that I was posing a question, not necessarily advocating the act.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Not Assassinate?] Reference

This explains why the multitudes appear to be in a state of perpetual somnolence, while the world is collapsing around them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Making of a Zombie Culture] Reference

As Bloch came up to her to say good-bye, buried in her deep armchair, she seemed only half-awakened from a vague somnolence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guermantes Way] Reference

The Baron had tried to think; but after passing the bridge at Gournay, the soft somnolence of digestion had sealed his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference

The house, when I found it, proved to be a middle-sized detached affair in a street of trees and somnolence; and it was empty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice shy]

Admit that six-lane divided highways that in some sections have 25 mph speed limits ensure gridlock and somnolence, not safety.    From Wordnik.com.  [First, let's try synchronizing the lights] Reference

This somnolence did I disturb when I taught that NO ONE YET KNOWETH what is good and bad: — unless it be the creating one! —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference

In his last days sight and hearing both failed, and he finally died of somnolence, twenty hours 'sleep becoming habitual with him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inns and Taverns of Old London] Reference

Gathrid watched the eastern armies shed their somnolence and become astonishingly agile and coordinated during a day-long exercise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Swordbearer]

That corporate somnolence, rather than its more-remembered ruthlessness, has far better characterized Microsoft over the past decade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Microsoft's Yahoo Gambit] Reference

Turkey and plum pudding and all the drinks that rightfully go with them had reduced Jimmy Blenkiron to a pleasant state of somnolence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Best Detective Stories]

Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walden] Reference