Example Sentences

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Adams arrived in a fancy new coach, bewigged and be-ruffled but looking underslept and out of sorts.

From Washington Post • Jan. 19, 2021

Experimenting with procrastination and staying up late are very typical at this age, so if their grades are acceptable and they aren’t seriously underslept, I’d leave it be.

From Slate • Jul. 2, 2020

A chronically underslept Reform Jew, I usually dozed through the sermon.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2016

We keep reading about how we’re all underslept and distracted these days, so we can’t help scanning the body for the signs, which obligingly present themselves.

From The Guardian • May 13, 2016

THE Easter vacation was ended and four hundred overfed, underslept boys had returned to spread the germs of measles, mumps and tonsilitis among their fellows.

From Skippy Bedelle His Sentimental Progress From the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World by Fuhr, Ernest