He sat up and protested sleepily.

He removed the cat (who protested sleepily), set her down on the couch, and rose.

The woman protested sleepily and tried to pull him back down again, but Azador wore an intent expression.

She heard crying children, the sound of older children sleepily protesting.

Paul sat up straight; Gally, who was slumped against his knee, protested sleepily.

Fredericks, who perhaps against his or her better judgment had curled up against his shoulder after all, protested sleepily.

Janey, protesting sleepily, had been talked through leaving the lab, going upstairs, bringing back the medicine.

There was a mumble of voices within the bedroom, Marion's sister protesting sleepily, and then Peter called down again.

She immediately poked her husband in the ribs, and when he protested sleepily, she told him to "get up and take notes."

She carried George, protesting sleepily, to his cot in the wagon.