sleepwalking

Example Sentences

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
  • His longtime legal adviser has said that Mr. Latchford was comatose at the time and unable to rebut the charges.
    Mike Ives, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
  • The ‘real’ Camille, meanwhile, has become an insensible, comatose carcass, although no one seems to notice.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 24 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • None of the officers tried to stop the beatings or render medical assistance to Brooks, who appeared semiconscious for most of the assault, according to the video.
    Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 20 Feb. 2025
  • On June 29, another Texas man was found semiconscious on the River Trail halfway between Silver Bridge and Black Bridge near Phantom Ranch.
    Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 9 July 2024
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“Sleepwalking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sleepwalking. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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