sleepwalker
noun
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.
sleepwalkers
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pluralof sleepwalker.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2025
This is especially true as the artist’s attempts to wake up the sleepwalkers of society have grown into complex and organized activities, involving dozens of bodies working in physical harmony.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 22, 2019
These suburban sleepwalkers, unsatisfied by their comfortable lives and digital toys, awaken from their malaise by taking a walk on the wild side.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 6, 2018
The worst is “The Crowd,” a pretentious new film in which Mr. Parreno had actors, some of whom may be hypnotized, move like sleepwalkers around the drill hall itself.
From New York Times ● Jun. 12, 2015
Somewhere in that direction is Schulpforta with its dark spires, its bed wetters and sleepwalkers and bullies.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
