Example Sentences

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“The roads were dirt and wound around as if made by somnambulistic cows.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

Over the 13 years I’ve dedicated myself to the somnambulistic trance, I’ve collected a number of outfits — silk slips, slinky tops, linen shorts, acrylic sweaters — all in muted ultramarine.

From New York Times • May 26, 2021

He completed a story, the kind “any of the somnambulistic totem newspapers in America would have come up with.”

From Washington Times • May 15, 2018

The somnambulistic sax man's first holiday release sold more than 8 million copies, spawning two more equally yawn-inducers — "Faith: A Holiday Album" in 1999 and "Wishes: A Holiday Album" three years later.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2014

As Sullivan saw it, “Burnham came out of his somnambulistic vagary and joined in. He was keen enough to understand that ‘Uncle Dick’”—meaning Hunt—“had done him a needed favor.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson