How to Use soporific in a Sentence

soporific

adjective
  • But that was not the case this year, which proved more soporific than Ambien.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 1 May 2023
  • Endless sequels at the box office—and soporific awards shows.
    — Eleanor Cummins, The New Republic, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Only the library had survived the friars’ long sleep, though barely; even its soporific dust, felled by time, failed to fly up.
    — Cynthia Ozick, Harper's Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
  • His music has been described as bland and soporific -- like an aural hit of Ambien.
    — John Blake, CNN, 5 Dec. 2021
  • These are not actions of two people who can’t wait to rip their clothes off, which is what this movie needed to make its central pairing less soporific.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2026
  • On this show, what happens after dinner usually arrives in soporific glimpses.
    — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2021
  • The crew handed out our second meal, a soporific mélange of sweet potato soup, sandwiches and a panna cotta trifle.
    — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Or, rather, the pseudo-activity of a free-market model, which keeps people soporific?
    — Peter Pomerantsev, New York Times, 3 May 2018
  • Yes, a gentle lavender-chamomile whatever is usually the soporific choice.
    — Maggie Lange, Bon Appétit, 28 Mar. 2020
  • Beeple’s technique — collaging lots of colorful images in grid format — is a soporific cliche.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Time was, city council meetings in minor American burgs were sleepy, if not downright soporific affairs.
    — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The soporific Reagan era made the music and lyrics SST trafficked in seem an active threat.
    — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The Ōura app even provides recordings of boring stories, read by someone with a wonderfully soporific voice, to help her fall asleep.
    — John Horgan, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Long regarded as a backwater in Southeast Asia, Laos is famous for its soporific vibe.
    — Duncan Forgan, CNN, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Under the guise of Bedouin, the pair have championed a signature sound that is best described as beautifully soporific.
    — Michael Sundius, Billboard, 24 Aug. 2017
  • If the comfort of the chili sauce took the form of catharsis—heart-racing heat and its attendant sweat—the comfort of the tomato soup was soporific, more soothing than Campbell’s.
    — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 6 May 2022
  • All the songs are burdened with soporific string arrangements, blunting the impact of Gabriel’s gravelly delivery.
    — Brad Sanders, SPIN, 13 Feb. 2023
  • This time around, the latter stages are at risk of being soporific because Alcaraz is out with injury and Sinner is on a 30-match winning run.
    — Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 27 May 2026
  • And at a time when politics seems to be downright histrionic in many parts of the world, Germany’s election campaign has felt surprisingly soporific.
    — Yascha Mounk, Slate Magazine, 13 Sep. 2017
  • The once-soporific Uzbek media was allowed to explore some topics previously considered taboo.
    — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
  • To avoid muddying the texture, pianists rely on a clean, detached style, and as a result the music too often sounds subdued, fastidious, even soporific.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 14 May 2018
  • Living in the shadow of nuclear annihilation, and having freshly returned from war, whites found their own culture anemic and soporific.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 14 May 2017
  • But now there's something distinctly soporific about it all, and certainly not the kind of writing Capote himself would have wanted associated with his name.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024
  • For the Grand Prix on Sunday, as the cars have become wider, longer and heavier, the racing is soporific, with virtually no overtaking.
    — Ian Parkes, New York Times, 22 May 2025
  • Yet each week, American state and local governments crank out hefty reports by the dozens, creating a dismal stack of soporific homework for money managers studying whether or not to buy their bonds.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2019
  • There's lavender, bees, and the soporific scent of rosemary; breakfasts of honey and peaches; history tours with owner James Heneage; and the sparkle of the distant water.
    — Antonia Quirke, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 May 2024
  • The lawyer, with her drab colors and soporific delivery, seemed intent on boring Americans into compliant indifference.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 11 Jan. 2017
  • The intermissionless production takes its time, building to a chilling climax over 135 sometimes soporific minutes.
    — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 8 June 2018
  • Three goals in the final 15 minutes put a gloss on a largely soporific performance at a well-below capacity Emirates Stadium.
    — Afp, chicagotribune.com, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Traveling to Hydra is normally a relaxing, almost soporific affair.
    — Tony Perrottet, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2025

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