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
Poor man, he will have slept wakefully this night!
From Clementina by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
Most of the windows had gone to sleep, but a few near the front entrance were twinkling wakefully, and the door flew open in response to the call of the motor.
From The Port of Adventure by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
And so, with sweats of anguish, he wakefully passed the hours until in the gloom of his room the dawn showed a milky rectangle of light, and began to be reflected on the window curtains.
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
