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单词 sleepless
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Definition of sleepless in English:

sleepless

adjective ˈsliːpləsˈslipləs
  • 1Characterized by or experiencing lack of sleep.

    another sleepless night
    Lisa lay sleepless
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I've worked really long hours, missed lunch breaks, and had several sleepless nights.
    • I have until Friday at 12 to get it done, which means working all day today and tomorrow and possibly having a couple of sleepless nights.
    • Hours of stress, sleepless nights and the worry alone couldn't be good for anyone.
    • She's still experiencing sleepless nights and cries at the drop of a hat.
    • But the nights were still filled with sleepless hours - for all of us.
    • It's not going to be easy; it'll be a year of hard work and disillusionment, of sleepless nights and endless days.
    • The levels of adrenaline and endorphins remain high and can cause a feeling of restlessness and even a sleepless night.
    • Once back in the office they find themselves trapped in a cycle of long hours and sleepless nights.
    • One lady blamed the library for her sleepless nights, claiming once she has borrowed a good book she stays up all night till she finishes it.
    • You don't necessarily have to live with the sleepless nights of insomnia.
    • Lights that have caused residents in Horwich to suffer sleepless nights for the past year are to be allowed to stay, a government inspector has ruled.
    • Every night he went home alone and spent many sleepless hours lying on his bed, waiting for the day he could be with her.
    • She spent an anxious and sleepless night made worse by twenty-four hours without food.
    • I've never had a sleepless night in my life and will easily sleep 12 hours.
    • It is the stuff of anxious days and sleepless nights.
    • The answer comes to us after much soul searching and many sleepless nights.
    • They will blame the policemen's lack of diet consciousness, sleepless nights, and reckless food habits.
    • He actually had some sleepless nights as he went on checking the alertness of the security personnel drafted for the exhibition.
    • Manolo, the horseman, haggard after twelve hours in the saddle and a sleepless night, reached out to shake me fully awake.
    • And on the occasions when a pill was mistakenly forgotten, were all the sleepless nights that followed nothing but a hollow joke?
    Synonyms
    wakeful, restless, disturbed, without sleep
    awake, wide awake, unsleeping, tossing and turning
    insomniac
    archaic watchful
    rare insomnolent
    1. 1.1literary Continually active or moving.
      the sleepless river
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The traffic of the great city went on in the deepening night upon the sleepless river.

Derivatives

  • sleeplessly

  • adverbˈsliːpləsliˈslipləsli
    • A neighbor at that time became the one who insistently and sleeplessly watched you.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I am properly, really, tearfully, sleeplessly frightened for my children.
      • The next two days were a blur for Mitch, trudging sleeplessly between the hospital and the bar.
      • Loud screams and soft sobs are heard as they roll sleeplessly on the mats spread on the floor of the school that has been converted into the relief camp.
      • The next morning, Kevin found Adam, sleeplessly staring out the window.
 
 

Definition of sleepless in US English:

sleepless

adjectiveˈslipləsˈslēpləs
  • 1Characterized by or experiencing lack of sleep.

    another sleepless night
    Lisa lay sleepless
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I have until Friday at 12 to get it done, which means working all day today and tomorrow and possibly having a couple of sleepless nights.
    • Lights that have caused residents in Horwich to suffer sleepless nights for the past year are to be allowed to stay, a government inspector has ruled.
    • Once back in the office they find themselves trapped in a cycle of long hours and sleepless nights.
    • You don't necessarily have to live with the sleepless nights of insomnia.
    • It is the stuff of anxious days and sleepless nights.
    • The levels of adrenaline and endorphins remain high and can cause a feeling of restlessness and even a sleepless night.
    • She spent an anxious and sleepless night made worse by twenty-four hours without food.
    • He actually had some sleepless nights as he went on checking the alertness of the security personnel drafted for the exhibition.
    • She's still experiencing sleepless nights and cries at the drop of a hat.
    • It's not going to be easy; it'll be a year of hard work and disillusionment, of sleepless nights and endless days.
    • Manolo, the horseman, haggard after twelve hours in the saddle and a sleepless night, reached out to shake me fully awake.
    • But the nights were still filled with sleepless hours - for all of us.
    • They will blame the policemen's lack of diet consciousness, sleepless nights, and reckless food habits.
    • Every night he went home alone and spent many sleepless hours lying on his bed, waiting for the day he could be with her.
    • I've never had a sleepless night in my life and will easily sleep 12 hours.
    • Hours of stress, sleepless nights and the worry alone couldn't be good for anyone.
    • The answer comes to us after much soul searching and many sleepless nights.
    • One lady blamed the library for her sleepless nights, claiming once she has borrowed a good book she stays up all night till she finishes it.
    • And on the occasions when a pill was mistakenly forgotten, were all the sleepless nights that followed nothing but a hollow joke?
    • I've worked really long hours, missed lunch breaks, and had several sleepless nights.
    Synonyms
    wakeful, restless, disturbed, without sleep
    1. 1.1literary Continually active or moving.
      the sleepless river
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The traffic of the great city went on in the deepening night upon the sleepless river.
 
 
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