Somnambulist definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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She felt like a somnambulist, and wondered how soon she would wake and find herself in her small and uncomfortable bed at the Court The next day that feeling of unreality was still there; that sensation of mystery, of something supernatural which persistently haunted her One thing was quite sure; that all joy had gone out of her life.

—The Nest of the Sparrowhawk

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Definitions (3)

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One who is subject to somnambulism; a person who walks in his sleep.

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Examples (50)

Penny was coming back, walking like a somnambulist, her brown eyes wide and fixed. — The Project Gutenberg eBook of Murder at Bridge, by Anne Austin
Madame Sand arrived, looking like a somnambulist, and remained half asleep all through the meal. — George Sand, Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings
When, as often happened, he was absorbed by the composition of some work he would be rather like a somnambulist: while his conscious soul was following its musical ideas the rest of him would be delivered up to the other unconscious soul which is forever watching for the smallest distraction of the mind to take the freedom of the fields. — Jean-Christophe, Vol. I
He comes forth like a somnambulist (says an onlooker), pursued by the terrible cry, “Hors la loi!” Had the cries at once taken form in a decree, the history of the world might have been different. — The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)
At least 30\% of the complex / big words need to be attributed to the bumiputera writers. e.g., somnambulist, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, etc. — Bibliobibuli