Word.ws English Dictionary

How to use sleepless in a sentence

10 example sentences · adjective

Sleepless means characterized by an absence of sleep: wakeful. Example: “I spent a sleepless night worrying about the exams.”

Examples of sleepless by meaning

adjectiveCharacterized by an absence of sleep: wakeful.

  • I spent a sleepless night worrying about the exams.

More sentences with sleepless

  • If you decide to stay the course and finish engineering school, it will mean long hours and sleepless nights.From the entry stay the course
  • The poetic voice describes how, sleepless with lovesickness, he goes to the chapel, seeking respite.2008, Emily Francomano, Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature, page 71. From the entry dorveille
  • She would have spent sleepless nights, smoking, worrying—and she would have lost her nerve.1966, Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls, page 227. From the entry doll
  • Olivia had looked up that article in the sleepless pre-dawn hours and knew now what she had already suspected.2014, Nina Milne, chapter 5, in How to Bag a Billionaire, Mills & Boon, page 64. From the entry trophy girlfriend
  • Knights, knights—you'll scare yourself sleepless with such! no knights there are anymore—just wicked little winglings who will not wooze when they should.2014, Tad Williams, The Very Best of Tad Williams, →ISBN, page 237. From the entry wooze
  • Coming from a neighborhood like Bay Village, we can tell you all about sleepless nights from drunks rolling out of bars at 2 a.m.1974 April 13, Sheri, “Reactions”, in Gay Community News, page 4. From the entry roll out
  • He stood there almost voiceless, lumpishly ugly with his face yellow and creased after the sleepless night, and his birthmark like a smear of dirt.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 19”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers…. From the entry lumpishly
  • Lily’s head was so heavy with the weight of a sleepless night that the chatter of her companions had the incoherence of a dream.1905, Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, Book 2, Chapter 10. From the entry incoherence
  • On a sleepless odyssey through the capital's nightspots, cafes, office blocks and bedroom floors, Johnny (something between a slice of John Lydon, and a dose of Mark E.2002, Ali Catterall, Simon Wells, Your Face Here: British Cult Movies Since the Sixties, page 209. From the entry spleenful

Meaning of sleepless

  1. adjective Characterized by an absence of sleep: wakeful.

Full definition of sleepless

Questions about sleepless in a sentence

How do you use sleepless in a sentence?
Sleepless is used as an adjective. For example: “I spent a sleepless night worrying about the exams.”
What is a short sentence with sleepless?
“I spent a sleepless night worrying about the exams.”
What does sleepless mean?
Sleepless means characterized by an absence of sleep: wakeful.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: sleepless (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this page: “How to use sleepless in a sentence.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/sentences/sleepless. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.