Example Sentences

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He exerted little energy on what-ifs and spent no time at all staring sleeplessly at his bedroom ceiling.

From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2024

Undeterred, Cotton sleeplessly wrote articles, conducted interviews and filmed Texas rappers freestyling — which he’d edit himself and post on his fledgling YouTube channel and website.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 4, 2018

Whether subconsciously or as an overt nod to the master, Villeneuve echoes Spielberg’s use of edgy soldiers and his heroes sleeplessly obsessing about alien communication, right down to using clay models and kids’ drawings.

From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 2016

One track – the frankly rocking "Why I Love You" – finds the overgrown apprentice and his former master twitching sleeplessly, trading lines, wondering which of their trusted consiglieri will deliver the coup de grace.

From The Guardian • Aug. 13, 2011

The prospect would be of a thousand, or thousands of incarcerated nights, sleeplessly turning over the past, waiting for his life to resume, wondering if it ever would.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan