Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Walking in sleep; sleeping while in motion; also, characterized by somnambulism.
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- adjective
walking as if, or while,asleep
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Examples
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But Bergen tells the story with passion and with new details about some of the heroic individuals who tried to rouse the Bush administration from its "strangely somnambulant" state.
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Dolly Parton sings her toe-tapper Travelin 'Thru (from Transamerica); nominated lyricist Kathleen Bird York, backed by somnambulant human mannequins and a burning car, sings Into the Deep from Crash; Three
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If she sits at the piano, she only stays a moment and stares at the keys, then lights a cigarette and wanders, somnambulant, out the door.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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But Bergen tells the story with passion and with new details about some of the heroic individuals who tried to rouse the Bush administration from its "strangely somnambulant" state.
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The fact that the Bush administration was strangely somnambulant about the al-Qaeda threat is puzzling.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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The fact that the Bush administration was strangely somnambulant about the al-Qaeda threat is puzzling.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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The fact that the Bush administration was strangely somnambulant about the al-Qaeda threat is puzzling.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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The fact that the Bush administration was strangely somnambulant about the al-Qaeda threat is puzzling.
The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011
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If she sits at the piano, she only stays a moment and stares at the keys, then lights a cigarette and wanders, somnambulant, out the door.
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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On one particular night -- at around 2 a.m., if his memory serves -- Brett Bishop's mucky, somnambulant job was transformed by a shimmer of revelation.
The American Oyster Paradise Richard Nalley 2010
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