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Definition of sleepless
1 : not able to sleep lay sleepless with fever
2 : affording no sleep sleepless nights
3 : unceasingly active or operative sleepless casinos
sleeplessly
adverbsleeplessness
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Examples of sleepless in a Sentence
He lay sleepless in bed.
Recent Examples of sleepless from the Web
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The couple's sleepless nights are now accompanied by new fears about their son's future.
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There are many sleepless nights and stressful months before a kernel of success is found.
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Gilbert, on the other hand, should be headed for some sleepless nights.
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Carl spent his sleepless night in a different Blaine establishment, his anxiety heightened by the weather.
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The first weeks were a sleepless, unrelenting blur.
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Commissioner Rob Manfred has already expressed concern about the diminishing amount of action in the game, and the ongoing trends can do nothing but give him sleepless nights.
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But Oswalt followed intensely confessional moments like that with equally hilarious imagery, here describing being peppered with unfiltered questions from his daughter's friends after four sleepless nights.
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I was also struck by the scene in which Frank, sleepless, goes to sit next to the bed where Claire is lying with Tom.
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First Known Use of sleepless
15th century
SLEEPLESS Defined for English Language Learners
sleepless
playDefinition of sleepless for English Language Learners
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: without sleep
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: not able to sleep
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