sleepwalker
a person who walks, eats, or performs other motor acts while asleep and is unaware of doing so upon awakening; a person with a disorder characterized by this: A sleepwalker may do something that could cause injury, such as climbing out of a window or walking into objects.
a person who acts seemingly without awareness, feeling, aim, or will: My parents were sleepwalkers, moving about their world as if oblivious to it and to themselves.
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How to use sleepwalker in a sentence
Later, he describes himself as “a sleepwalker—who turns off the alarm clock.”
Neither was it the face of a dreamer or a sleepwalker, or of the dead, when the lines disappear and life retires.
The Necromancers | Robert Hugh BensonWhen at length the candle was lighted, he took it in his hand and went into the parlour like a sleepwalker.
The Manxman | Hall CaineHe went about extinguishing the gas as aimlessly and mechanically as a sleepwalker, unaware of the things he was touching.
The Cottage of Delight | Will N. HarbenEmil overtook her and catching her by the shoulders shook her gently, as if he were trying to awaken a sleepwalker.
O Pioneers! | Willa Cather
“This way,” answered Molly, looking indeed like a sleepwalker as she glided down the hall to the main steps.
Molly Brown's Junior Days | Nell Speed
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