Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a sleepless manner.
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- adverb In a
sleepless manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb without sleep; in a sleepless manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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That is what haunts me late at night as I turn sleeplessly.
Elizabeth E. Evans: At The Heart Of Darkness Elizabeth E. Evans 2011
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Millions of the young couple's fellow citizens in their 20s, meanwhile, lead lives marked by student debt, by the difficulty of finding a secure job, of getting somewhere affordable to live, and of matching their lived reality to the material and emotional aspirations the surrounding culture sleeplessly and cruelly promotes to them.
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That is what haunts me late at night as I turn sleeplessly.
Elizabeth E. Evans: At The Heart Of Darkness Elizabeth E. Evans 2011
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That is what haunts me late at night as I turn sleeplessly.
Elizabeth E. Evans: At The Heart Of Darkness Elizabeth E. Evans 2011
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She lay sleeplessly for the rest of the night and finally, at the moment where the night releases its grip, Teresa rolled away from her and soundlessly fell asleep.
Taxis Mary Capps 2011
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That is what haunts me late at night as I turn sleeplessly.
Elizabeth E. Evans: At The Heart Of Darkness Elizabeth E. Evans 2011
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They find her name, often late at night, sleeplessly searching the Web for some sign that there are others who have lived in the same hell and survived.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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They find her name, often late at night, sleeplessly searching the Web for some sign that there are others who have lived in the same hell and survived.
The Fiddler in the Subway Gene Weingarten 2010
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Oh, I was hopelessly and sleeplessly lost in the pea soup newborn fog myself a couple times!
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With training camps set to open this month, NFL coaches are sleeplessly trying to squeeze every advantage out of their rosters.
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