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Discover LudwigThe phrase "sleep fitfully" is correct and can be used in written English.
It means to sleep restlessly, disturbed by frequent awakenings. You can use it when referring to someone who is having trouble sleeping, either from anxiety or discomfort. For example: "After a long night of studying, I tried to sleep fitfully until morning."
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That night I sleep fitfully.
He went to sleep fitfully, next to her.
Regardless, many more tax-shy Europeans have reason to sleep fitfully.
To watch your critically ill son sleep fitfully in his hospital bed is nearly unbearable.
Usually gaining weight beforehand, most bears sleep fitfully through much of the winter, but they do not truly hibernate.
There continues to be a minority of people who avoid the subway, stay away from skyscrapers, sleep fitfully, find new solace in religion.
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A seven-game losing streak just 17 games into his head-coaching career had already made his sleep fitful.
Her health was poor, her sleep fitful, so she went to bed early to get as many hours as she could.
The creatures slithered over the men's sleeping bags as they slept fitfully on the ground of the Indian subcontinent.
She slept fitfully.
He has probably slept fitfully.
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