How To Use Wakeful In A Sentence
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Tired after two performances that day, she began to drift between sleep and wakefulness.
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The wriggle brought Shawn into a half wakeful state and he groggily inhaled a faintly flowery scent.
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Roland felt wakeful and misplaced, as though he was in an art gallery or a surgeon's waiting-room.
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They can treat their time away as a temporary break from reality, like a dreamworld where whatever happened stayed in the dream, not following them into the realities of wakefulness.
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One can read several wakeful nights recorded in her face.
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Cragg used it as a rendezvous or workshop and visited it stealthily on his "wakeful" nights.
Mary Louise in the Country
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Fergus and I, after having lain awake for a considerable time, taking it for granted that they had given up all intention of attacking the house, at length fell into a kind of wakeful doze from which we were at once aroused by a loud knocking at the hall-door.
The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
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“No peaceful sleep, Domnuathi, but a wakeful eternity in the deepest pits of Annwn.”
Earl of Durkness
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You might call it a dreamscape, but they say no, it's "crepuscular" - it's the slippery moment just after you wake up, between sleep and wakefulness.
NPR Topics: News
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All of which makes, of course, for a heady mix: the world groaning into wakefulness, the ice splitting, the tubers stirring, and the whole cosmic rhythm incorporated into a scene of priests solemnifying the return of the light of the world.
BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
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Infant colic is characterized by excessive and inconsolable crying, hypertonicity, and wakefulness, mainly in the evening.
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Men said he kept one beneath his pillow for use in moments of wakefulness.
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I think he's a "wakeful" baby, whatever the fuck that means.
The Science Of Sleep
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I slept badly that night: long, indeterminable periods of uneasy wakefulness interspaced with dreams.
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I am eager and wakeful , I am a stranger in a strange land.
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Anna sat in the seat next to Izumi, her mind wakeful and restless.
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I do this in the night sometimes, in moments of partial wakefulness.
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Consciousness during wakefulness in a sane person is pretty well ordered and familiar.
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The Turkish basketball federation said Friday that Taurasi had tested positive for a stimulant that was identified as modafinil, a drug that enhances wakefulness and vigilance and is designed to treat narcolepsy, sleep apnea and sleep disorders related to shift work.
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Socrates' preferred analogy for his own role in the city was that of a gadfly, who lit upon his fellow citizens and sought to sting them into a healthy state of intellectual wakefulness.
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He did not sleep; but something short of a dream came into his alert and wakeful mind some while before dawn, as though the sun was rising before its hour, a warmth like a May morning full of blown hawthorn blossoms, and a girl, primrose-fair and unshorn, walking barefoot through the meadow grass, and smiling.
A River So Long
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Even now, as it spiraled into the furthermost reaches of her mind, it silently beckoned her to follow, and she almost abandoned her attempts at wakefulness so she could pursue that exquisite stimulation into whatever dark recesses of her mind it might care to hide.
Darkness of the Light
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They camped at the table, all the five of them, and some while their greed kept them wakeful, and they called the mains, but their drought kept them drinking.
A Monk of Fife
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That we sometimes recognize certain objects, such as wakeful human beings, as agents, does not mean that there’s a separate category of entities — we clearly also recognize these agents as physical objects subject to the same physical laws as any other object — why not?
Paul Nelson makes a bizarre argument - The Panda's Thumb
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I staggered into wakefulness at 11:45 when Graham rang to say good night.
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accept your wakefulness and sleep in its own contrary way is more likely to come
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Always, always, there are wakeful eyes on the Elsinore.
CHAPTER XIX
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Plans to move the wreck of destroyer HMS Wakeful out of a shipping lane have been amended to allow the ship to safely remain where she sank during the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940.
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consciousness during wakefulness in a sane person is pretty well ordered and familiar
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And sitting here surrounded with roses and with that languorous lilt in her ear, Crystal felt as if she too were under the influence of some unseen Mesmer, who had lulled the activity of her brain into a kind of wakeful sleep even while her senses remained keenly, vitally on the alert.
The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days
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The three other rooms in the exhibition are devoted to food and drink, sleep and wakefulness, and motion and rest.
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Before long the sense of foreboding was back like a rat in his belly, and he lay weary and wakeful into the early hours of the dawn.
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Rebecca Yeastman was certainly not sensitive, or she would have realized earlier that behind almost every curtain lurked some such watcher, soft-footed, noiseless, wakeful.
Love and Life Behind the Purdah
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I turned in shortly before dawn feeling not half bad; it was snug and jolly to see Susie snoring away in the dim candle-light, with one fine tit peeping out among the frills; I nibbled away until she squirmed into wakefulness, whereafter we set to partners, celebrating the first civilised bed we'd occupied since the Planter's Hotel, if you like.
Isabelle
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The passage of our notions as they exist during wakefulness into those of dreams, and that of notions as they exist in dreams into those of wakefulness, become directly apprehensible in that state of consciousness which is called dreamless slumber.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
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Soon, the babbling water lulled him into a wakeful sleep.
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He himself was feeling quite wakeful and even lively, though he didn’t know why.
The Wind in the Willows
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As often as possible, please compose yourselves in the equanimity of thought-free wakefulness.
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A sudden noise jolted him into wakefulness.
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He raised his head, and the cold, bitter reality jarred him into wakefulness.
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Normal consciousness requires wakefulness or arousal activated in the brain stem and midbrain and awareness via the cerebral cortex and projections to and from subcortical brain areas.
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Days are a bit more wakeful, though he's taken to having a long late morning sleep from around 9.30-10 am that can last for up to 3 hours.
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This natural aptness, which is fortified by living together, was in Lionello sharpened and refined by his ever wakeful malevolence.
Jean-Christophe Journey's End
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He recited the chants in a somnambular monotone that was punctuated with an occasional shout at odd moments, shouts perhaps intended to jolt into wakefulness members of the audience who had dozed off.
The Soulforge
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Make moan of all that I endure for dole and drearihead And of my sleepless eyes, oppressed of wakefulness alway?
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III
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I lay wakeful that night, going over and over every detail in my head.
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wakefulness, watchfulness, and bellicosity make a good hunter
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We all know that in a state of 'doziness,' any accidental or ridiculous image which happens to suggest itself, will remain in the mind much longer than in a wakeful condition.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852
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It is never a good idea to take sleeping tablets regularly for this kind of wakefulness.
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Sleepwalking is a form of parasomnia, a class of sleep disorders characterized by partial wakefulness.
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Keats spluttered and coughed to full wakefulness, and steadied himself with a stiff brandy.
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Through the breathing hush of that dark hour which foreruns the dawn, that hour in which the head that knows a wakeful pillow is prone to sudden and disquieting apprehension of its insignificance and it's soul's dread isolation, the cab sped swiftly south upon the Avenue, shadowed reaches of the park upon its right, upon its left the dull, tired faces of those homes whose tenants lay wrapped in the cotton-wool of riches.
The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf
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She told me that when she was lying wakeful and anxious in bed at night, she used to imagine my house and my brother's house, both hundreds of miles away, out of Ireland, across the sea.
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Buddhism is less tongue-tied than this: reality has all the qualities of a Buddha, wakefulness, intelligence, compassion — attributes which are often called "luminosity" to distinguish it from sheer lack of existence.
Hegel on Buddhism
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Researchers have theorized that sleep may restore some chemical that is drained during periods of wakefulness.
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He flung an arm across his face to shield off wakefulness, hoping to sink back into sweet oblivion.
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And onceWinston could not remember whether it was in drugged sleep, or in normal sleep, or even in a moment of wakefulnessa voice murmured in his ear: Dont worry, Winston; you are in my keeping.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
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While Sancho falls quickly to sleep, Don Quijote remains wakeful and restless.
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And he turns his back to the stable door, whence a faint breeze tugs at his shirt: the breath of a storm brewing, that means to keep him in cold, unmothered wakefulness.
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Consciousness during wakefulness in a sane person is pretty well ordered and familiar.
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I used to have long wakeful periods at night, thinking ridiculous things.
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It had been a late and wakeful night for the two of them, talking and smoking and drinking in El's room.
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I am eager and wakeful , I am a stranger in a strange land.
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The point was, that as twilight and evening came on he became wakeful.
When the World Was Young
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It seems like yesterday that he was the wakeful baby who nursed incessantly and rarely slept through the night.
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Socrates' preferred analogy for his own role in the city was that of a gadfly, who lit upon his fellow citizens and sought to sting them into a healthy state of intellectual wakefulness.
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Some babies manage five or six-hour stretches of sleep at night by three to four months, but many do not, and others may even be more wakeful than when they were younger.
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Both of us knew that having to endure a few months of wakeful nights goes with the territory, and also that these months pass quickly as the child learns to sleep the whole night through.
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Old Cheng fell asleep, but Xiangzi tossed and turned in wakefulness.
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Although hypnopompic imagery was originally defined as a persistence of dream imagery into wakefulness, it seems that the images are not always continuations of dreams because they can begin after the sleeper has awoken.
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The silence, heavy and scented, was broken only by the far-away wheepling of a wakeful whaup and the grumbling of the burn near by, which bickered and hurried to be out in the open again on its way to the river.
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
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I sort of half-slept last night, suspended in a weird state between wakefulness and dreaming, kept anchored in the world by the sound of the radio.
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At night he lay in bed beside his wife also wakeful, also silent, her back to him in the dark - and went over it in his mind.
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But I was wakeful now and my mind was sharp-set on many things.
Greenmantle
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Keats spluttered and coughed to full wakefulness, and steadied himself with a stiff brandy.
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But the noise attending the first operation caught the wakeful attention of Edward, who, starting to the bartizan, called to know what the matter was.
The Monastery
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The eyes open and so forth, and the person becomes aware of being completely paralysed, and oftentimes it will happen as if elements of dream mentation will intrude into wakefulness, these are the hypnopopic hallucinations.
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After that initial euphoria, heroin causes an alternately wakeful and drowsy state.
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The pain was such that it kept jolting me back to wakefulness.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Plans to move the wreck of destroyer HMS Wakeful out of a shipping lane have been amended to allow the ship to safely remain where she sank during the Dunkirk evacuation in 1940.
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During the period of transition from wakefulness to sleep, which Kellaway has termed the oscitant state, there is a gradual increase in the amplitude of slow components of the EEG.
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a restless wakeful night
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Climbing into bed at a relatively early 0048 this morning, I could do little other than drift fitfully between wakefulness and a semi-conscious dozing, looking at my watch every here and again to see the hours ticking by slower than ever.
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Frances retired to the recently installed sweetheart bed, where she spent the night in wakeful fury.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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She had a wakeful night spent in prayer.
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But the cat was very cuddly and kept me company throughout my wakeful hours.
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She instinctively reached for it, but the river suddenly swept her over the edge of the waterfall, plunging her into a darkness, and then suddenly and sharply into wakefulness.
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We dozed, never quite letting ourselves go, ready to jump into confused wakefulness, anticipating action of some kind.
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For an indeterminable length of time, she wandered between sleep and semi-wakefulness, later remembering the noise of the plane once and then silence.
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He had stared into the misshapen shadows of deep night with superstitious wakefulness, and by the time the darkness lifted, he could feel the liquid weight of the infection in his lungs.
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Evidently this was not one of his "wakeful" periods.
Mary Louise in the Country
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The wakeful partner looks as if she was constructed piecemeal, again with a bust pendant from her broad shoulders.
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Rational Review
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Something intense is going on when we sleep; in fact, on an EEG trace it looks very similar to wakefulness.
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Our children are presumably as wakeful as any other children at any time in history.
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The sound of his name pierced the sleep mists and brought the dog to wakefulness.
Further Adventures of Lad
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It seems like yesterday that he was the wakeful baby who nursed incessantly and rarely slept through the night.
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He himself was feeling quite wakeful and even lively, though he didn’t know why.
The Wind in the Willows
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She began to drift between sleep and wakefulness.
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I've been spending many wakeful nights during the past couple of weeks thinking about my blessings versus my challenges.
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It is sometimes difficult, subjectively, to distinguish wakefulness from sleep; false awakenings and lucid dreams are a good illustration of this.
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The circadian rhythm you feel as wakefulness and sleepiness is the result of internal body changes.
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Fortunately for us, this wakeful time has been largely during the day, and we've had very few ‘horror’ nights.
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I try to fold her into the comfort of my body, but she pushes away from me, startled into wakefulness.
