Engine noise is minimal with only a slight and quite soporific vibration. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
Immediately the cabin was filled with a potent soporific mist. From Wordnik.com. [Fire Dancer]
Audiences are quite prone enough to fall asleep without these soporific aids. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914] Reference
Could anyone ever consider terrific a delivery best called soporific?. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Bartlett Blasts Woodward, Claims He ‘Formulated Some Conclusions’ Before He Began New Book] Reference
"soporific" -- and in explaining Santayana's eventual road to prestige. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Miller: "Harvard, We Have a Problem"] Reference
It was part of the reason that my vocabulary at age three included the word 'soporific'. From Wordnik.com. [The Man At The End Of The Bed] Reference
How about it Rudy - buy me a pastrami sandwich for every time I call a Romney speech "soporific"?. From Wordnik.com. ["A License to Blog?"] Reference
I will, however, agree that the June/July issue is somewhat "soporific" as Cheney and DeNiro called it. From Wordnik.com. [Larry Niven and... Ambiguity?] Reference
The best I can say about the first half of the performance is that I don't often get to use the word "soporific" in casual conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Baltimore Fiddle Fair] Reference
So terrific that 3 of 4 readers rated it "soporific" tristank. From Wordnik.com. [TechNet Blogs] Reference
"My ex-boyfriend gengineered some kind of soporific that he applied to my skin but it's activated only when I perspire. From Wordnik.com. [Flinx's Folly]
Your soporific was his excitement; think of that. From Wordnik.com. [It Is Never Too Late to Mend] Reference
It promises to be both high drama and soporific drudgery. From Wordnik.com. [Case No. 91-5482 Comes To Trial] Reference
It was a luxury to be dressed by her, a mental soporific. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
Irving, these may have considered a good clean shave the best soporific. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Outside the car, the afternoon light has deepened to a heavy soporific gold. From Wordnik.com. [Angels Carry the Sun excerpt: Chapter One, In the Woods] Reference
“Dexter,” she said with an expression of soporific surprise on her face. From Wordnik.com. [Dexter in the dark]
His speech, on the soporific subject of the Soviet economy, was rambling and disjointed. From Wordnik.com. [Alone At The Top] Reference
Then, hastened possibly by the soporific influence of that school book, sleep came at last. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
The "something" was a sweet and pungent cordial, which probably contained some soporific drug. From Wordnik.com. [Bandit Love] Reference
Thinking of Toby brought up the memory of Rafe, and Rafe was definitely not a soporific thought. From Wordnik.com. [Command Decision]
Howard Fineman characterizes John Kerry as one who "can seem aloof, condescending and soporific.". From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL] Reference
There is, for one, the matter of Kerry's public persona: he can seem aloof, condescending and soporific. From Wordnik.com. [Back to the Front] Reference
Ingemar's low, monotonous voice lecturing about so commonplace a thing as Evil had a soporific effect on him. From Wordnik.com. [The Status Civilization] Reference
The handsome, affable, glassy eyed CEO would make webcast speeches in his vacant, droning and soporific style. From Wordnik.com. [The several stages of grief] Reference
From which it appears evident that the actual words used as a soporific allow considerable latitude of choice. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit and Music] Reference
It gives off an unpleasant soporific smell, which is said to prove harmful to those that sleep under its shade. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
The Supreme Court's history suggests that an ideological cat fight is precisely what this soporific court needs. From Wordnik.com. [Why The Court Needs A Liberal] Reference
Would we fall into the twin traps of soporific tendentiousness on the one hand, patent offensiveness on the other?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Humor Roundtable - January 1, 2000] Reference
As it happens, milk contains a benzodiazepine-like substance, which could account for its legendary soporific effect. From Wordnik.com. [Do you know which of these will help you sleep?] Reference
When the applause finally subsided, Kerry launched into a long and rambling speech, one of his most soporific in weeks. From Wordnik.com. [DOWN TO THE WIRE] Reference
Others cast a glassy-eyed, soporific gaze at the renegade Centre leader -- as if this were a typical late-night meeting. From Wordnik.com. [Take Me for a Ride: coming of age in a destructive cult] Reference
After dinner, I lay down on the couch, with the Dial in my hand as a soporific, and had a short nap; then began to journalize. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
This year, the soporific nature of the process, which can take as long as two hours, will most harm Barack Obama, for reasons I'll explain. From Wordnik.com. [Slumber Party] Reference
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