Example Sentences

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Mostly it felt like a wasted opportunity: A once-beloved team, in a basketball mecca, sinking its future and alienating its fan base with contentious leadership, murky vision and somnambulant play.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

Across the Capitol, the fallout from FTX quickly overshadowed what normally might be a somnambulant hearing in the Senate Banking Committee about credit unions.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2022

Elvis and Maite, however, like music two decades behind their own time—lush, swoony tunes from the somnambulant ’50s, the kind of music David Lynch characters brood to as they act out that artist’s noir fantasies.

From Slate • Aug. 17, 2021

At the end of history, cut off from its past and pessimistic about the future, and facing slow death under rising tides, humanity has resigned itself to a somnambulant life.

From Salon • Jul. 23, 2020

Even after we placed him on his cot, Massey got up and resumed a somnambulant march toward the door.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover