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

All that night, the great genius of the nineteenth century tossed wakefully on his bed revolving the problem in his mind.

From Democracy, an American novel by Adams, Henry

And so Hugo Canning, abruptly widowed at a railway station, was left to toss wakefully that night, ridden by deepening anxieties....

From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor

She, too, had passed the night wakefully, no doubt; but neither asked the other how the hours had been spent.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George