Sentence examples for wakeful from inspiring English sources

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wakeful

adjective

Awake rather than sleeping

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When the dreaming element of REM intrudes into wakefulness, which can happen with sleep-deprivation, the result is wakeful dreaming or hallucinations.

Sleepiness is controlled by the body's internal biological ("circadian") clock, so an earlier bedtime just means several wakeful hours staring in frustration at a darkened ceiling.For years, some travellers and shift workers have sworn by melatonin.

There's music in the one-hour piece that isn't in the eight-hour version at all, and vice-versa, because it's structured for wakeful consciousness.

As though in defiance of his all-too-tempting surname, Break Up is a perky and wakeful thing, consisting mainly of breezy indie-pop shot through with California sunshine, more the Lemonheads meets the Mamas and the Papas than the pair's inspiration, Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot.

The vision of her little brood looking fresh and dainty and new for once in their lives excited her and made her restless and wakeful with anticipation.

Books are bought and read by the wakeful.

Five minutes ago, he had felt exhausted, ripe only for the pillow, but now he was electrically wakeful.

"Restless," the album's lead single, has a mood that New Order has explored many times before: a wakeful poignancy, like the dawn walk home after the best party of your life.

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And so he would persist for a very long time, Counting his steps in a half-wakeful torpor.

That's a hundred and thirty-nine in wakeful-woman years.

"Her favorite word is 'wakeful.' " (She still gets up at 4 A.M. to work).

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