SLEEPLESS


Meaning of SLEEPLESS in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a sleepless night

She had spent a sleepless night wondering what to do.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

night

She had plenty of time to think it over during a sleepless night , and on the train in the morning.

Sheila spent many sleepless nights figuring out how to deliver for her first major customer.

A sleepless night had added to her pallor and the haunted look in her eyes.

There are many life situations and emotional circumstances that can cause sleepless nights .

Doing anything more led to agony, sleepless nights , months of drinking and moping and boring her closest friends to death.

Thus begins the chronic cycle of tired days and sleepless nights .

In the end l retreated to the sofa, where I spent a cold, uncomfortable and furiously sleepless night .

He lives with them every day, and sweats them out on many a sleepless night .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the sleepless parents of newborn babies

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Ask yourself: what will be causing them their sleepless nights ten years from now?

Doing anything more led to agony, sleepless nights, months of drinking and moping and boring her closest friends to death.

Having lain sleepless until the early hours, it was almost eleven-thirty the next day before Luce surfaced.

Sheila spent many sleepless nights figuring out how to deliver for her first major customer.

The four travellers passed a sleepless night, each thinking of the gift Oz had promised to bestow on him.

There are many life situations and emotional circumstances that can cause sleepless nights.

They brought him back to her six days later, ending one vigil of sleepless prayers and beginning another.

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