Example Sentences

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All this gives the affair a narcoleptic quality, where flashes of radiance are quickly overwhelmed by everything else as we’re put back into our stupor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

David Edgar described her performance as that of a "waif-like narcoleptic unable to control her behaviour, but also - completely believably - the differently-mad person playing Corday".

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2023

In the HBO drama "The Sopranos," when Tony Soprano's sister Janice is hitting bottom, she moves in with a born-again, narcoleptic hippie who plays in a Christian rock band.

From Salon • Nov. 26, 2022

I was working for the QVC cable shopping channel in 1992 selling... strange devices in the middle of the night to a large, narcoleptic, interesting audience.

From Fox News • Nov. 12, 2019

“Anyway, Ohio’s not that smart and sleeps like a narcoleptic, so I guess he and my dad were kind of made for each other.”

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia