sleepwalking

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sleepwalking
Adjective
  • Later Clay sits handcuffed in the back of a police cruiser when the cops stop a mute, possibly somnambulant woman who has three vertical eye slits in her face.
    Ed Park, The New York Review of Books, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Baseball, too, has plenty of somnambulant qualities: hitters stepping out of the box; the hum of a summer crowd; the snap of the ball in a catcher’s mitt; the muffled screaming as the Pirates concede another season.
    Jason Gay, WSJ, 20 June 2022
Adjective
  • Now, he’s filled a syringe with drain cleaner and plans to inject it into a comatose drug addict.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 1 Nov. 2024
  • As if on cue, the Dodgers scored five unearned runs in the top of the fifth inning, waking up the comatose Paradise crowd.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
Adjective
  • On the evening of June 29, another Texas man was found semiconscious before becoming unresponsive and dying along the River Trail near the bottom of the canyon.
    Coleby Phillips, The Arizona Republic, 10 July 2024
  • The hiker, Scott Sims, 69, of Austin, was trying to reach Phantom Ranch for an overnight stay when he was found semiconscious at around 7 p.m. Saturday, the National Park Service said.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 2 July 2024

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“Sleepwalking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sleepwalking. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.

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