adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fitful/restless/uneasy sleep (= in which you keep moving or waking )
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My alarm woke me from a fitful sleep.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
sleep
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It wasn't until dawn that she finally drifted off into an all too brief and fitful sleep .
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Thunder woke her out of a fitful sleep .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He finally fell into a fitful sleep.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Encased in iron lungs, tortured victims vainly chased slumber through long, fitful nights.
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He enters his home and passes a fitful night.
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It smeared the faces of the men in the room, fighting a losing, fitful battle with the shadows.
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It wasn't until dawn that she finally drifted off into an all too brief and fitful sleep.
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They passed into the fitful darkness of the dock cavern.
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You can not, in a post-industrial nation, make more than fitful sense of an early Victorian doctrine of class-war.