Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: sleepless
IPA transcription: [sl'ipləs]
Pronunciations of sleepless
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: lidless, sleepless
    Meaning: always watchful; "to an eye like mine, a lidless watcher of the public weal"- Alfred Tennyson
  • Synonyms: insomniac, sleepless, watchful
    Meaning: experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare
Usage examples
  • Catherine, the many sleepless nights I have had on your brother's account!
  • Coiled all around the tree, with outstretched neck and keen and sleepless eyes, was a deadly serpent.
  • Unshaven and filthy, he was reeling from three nights' sleepless work on the Military Revolutionary Committee.
  • Refusal to admit it by day does not change the hour of the night when life is at its lowest ebb, and, sleepless, man faces himself as he is.
  • Morning, dismal and wet, at length dawned and discovered to my sleepless and aching eyes the church of Ingolstadt, its white steeple and clock, which indicated the sixth hour.
  • Disturbed by these different reflections; inclining now to one course and then to another, and again recoiling from all, as each successive consideration presented itself to her mind; Rose passed a sleepless and anxious night.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, License CC BY-SA 4.0