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lie awake

VERB
  1. lie without sleeping
    She was so worried, she lay awake all night long

How To Use lie awake In A Sentence

  • I used to lie awake at night worrying about it.
  • Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. Helen Rowland 
  • We'd lie awake at night, listening to the sound of the creaking bed frame straining underneath us. The Sun
  • I lie awake and pray that some hick will see a webfoot at the grocery and go ballistic, beat the filthy mutant to death and dump her body in a ditch. 365 tomorrows » 2007 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. Helen Rowland 
  • Bernard would lie awake for hours waging his nightly battle with carnality, slapping it down, groaning.
  • ‘I'll be waking you in four hours,’ he rumbled, ‘so you'd best not lie awake thinking of more verses for your curst song!’
  • It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. Baltasar Gracian 
  • She used to lie awake at night worrying about how to pay the bills.
  • The survey also lends some foundation to the cliché that women are more prone to lie awake at night than men. Times, Sunday Times
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