Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To walk or perform another act while asleep or in a sleeplike condition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To walk in sleep; wander in a state of sleep, as a somnambulist.
- To walk on or over in sleep.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb To walk when asleep.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
walk whilesleeping .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb walk in one's sleep
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Examples
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Two years ago I wrote an article expressing my dismay to see the English people somnambulate off the cliff of passive surrender to hostile Islam:
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Two years ago I wrote an article expressing my dismay to see the English people somnambulate off the cliff of passive surrender to hostile Islam:
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » The (English) Sleeper Awakes! 2010
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Two years ago I wrote an article expressing my dismay to see the English people somnambulate off the cliff of passive surrender to hostile Islam:
Brenda Walker on “The Morning Show with Brian Sussman,” Monday 11:05 a.m. ET. 2010
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Most snoring is composed by Beethoven or Wagner, although a few times Wiggs had heard heavy metal rock performed on the somnambulate bassoon.
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Film writer Molly Haskell said that at the core of Polanski's work is the "image of the anesthetized woman, the beautiful, inarticulate, and possibly even murderous somnambulate."
Kim Morgan: Roman Polanski Understands Women: Repulsion 2009
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But I never drink and somnambulate, that would be unsafe.
This Just in: I Break for Holidays! BikeSnobNYC 2008
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As many Americans somnambulate through their existence, they are virtually oblivious and indifferent to the profound human misery which must occur in order for a tiny fraction of humanity to experience the American Dream.
Shed Your Addiction: 2006
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"I'm a somnambulist, only I somnambulate faster than most people."
Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate Charles Turley 1904
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Two years ago I wrote an article expressing my dismay to see the English people somnambulate off the cliff of passive surrender to hostile Islam:
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"Given the multiple crises we face, the fact that we have this somnambulate election is unreal,"'he said.
wnyt.com - Capital Region News, Weather and Sports from NEWSCHANNEL 13 2010
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