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sleepless

/sleep-lis/US // ˈslip lɪs //UK // (ˈsliːplɪs) //

无眠,不眠不休,失眠,不眠

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : without sleep: a sleepless night.
    • : watchful; alert: sleepless devotion to duty.
    • : always active: the sleepless ocean.

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Examples

  • The past four nights had been a sleepless blur as she watched the terror of Afghans desperate to escape all over television and social media—including her own family members.

  • All the fear and sleepless nights and being afraid of tomorrow and returning to detention.

  • It can be a great swap if you want to go really ultralight, but in buggy regions prone to mosquitoes, this may only result in a lot of sleepless nights.

  • That way, you’re set up and ready to go when the crazy sleepless nights begin.

  • Pregnancy exhausted me, and I barely made it through the initial sleepless months of having a newborn.

  • It was a sleepless night in Chechnya for two lawyers from the Russian town of Orenburg, Sergei Babinets and Dmitriy Dimitriyev.

  • Mama, I understand your many sleepless nights / When you sit and think about father / Or how you tried to be the perfect wife.

  • I blame a sleepless night or free drinks at a cocktail party.

  • And behind the sleepless Moms will come binders full of freshly scrubbed lawyers looking to turn a buck on the news.

  • Now we are learning that it is not just sleepless nights looking after Prince George that may have unsettled his mood.

  • She moved slightly, like a dreamer in pain, as again she faced the creed she had hated through many a sleepless night.

  • So excited was he at the thought of the great honour that was to be his that he spent almost a sleepless night.

  • There were no more sleepless nights, fearing an attack from the dreaded rebel or the volunteer.

  • The story was brought to a proper and blissful conclusion; still Sue was sleepless.

  • They spent sleepless nights, and it was especially at such times that they would sing hymns.