wakeful
adjective
unable to sleep; not sleeping; indisposed to sleep.
wakefully
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a word derived from
wakeful.
Example Sentences
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To live wakefully is to live in full awareness of this, our human situation.
From Forbes ● Jun. 23, 2011
Often he beds down wakefully in an unoccupied farrowing pen.
From Time Magazine Archive
As he lay in bed, staring wakefully against the dark, another memory crept into his thoughts—the echo of a small, querulous voice, "yellow rock candy and syllabubs."
From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer
About him men tired by a long night spent on pallets as hard as the stone flooring tossed and groaned or sighed wakefully.
From Shelled by an Unseen Foe by James Fiske
Gordon was restless and edged ever nearer to the recumbent Vandersee; Little had fallen asleep but was obviously dreaming what the others were wakefully thinking.
From Gold Out of Celebes by Aylward Edward Dingle
