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Synonyms for unsleeping


Grammar : Adj
Spell : slee-ping
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsli pɪŋ

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Définition of unsleeping

Origin :
  • c.1300, past participle adjective from sleep (v.). Sleeping-pill is from 1660s; sleeping-bag is from 1850; sleeping sickness as a specific African tropical disease is first recorded 1875; sleeping has been used since late 14c. for diseases marked by morbid conditions. Sleeping Beauty (1729) is Perrault's La belle au bois dormant.
  • adj wakeful
Example sentences :
  • These were tended by the crones, unseen, unsleeping—not always unheard.
  • Extract from : « In the South Seas » by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • It was only, indeed, his unsleeping caution that had saved him.
  • Extract from : « Red Fox » by Charles G. D. Roberts
  • Nor in the duties of judge and governor did he relax the unsleeping vigilance of the general.
  • Extract from : « Monk » by Julian Corbett
  • All night long she had been there unsleeping, hollow-eyed, and worn with tearless grief.
  • Extract from : « The Mountain Girl » by Payne Erskine
  • The man was still at his post, his unsleeping eyes ever watchful.
  • Extract from : « In the Brooding Wild » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • Their unsleeping watchfulness of British commerce is in the way.
  • Extract from : « The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I » by Burton J. Hendrick
  • She told him that while he had been unsleeping last night neither had she slept.
  • Extract from : « Wolf Breed » by Jackson Gregory
  • And from that day forward he was at her—respectful, but unsleeping.
  • Extract from : « The Torch and Other Tales » by Eden Phillpotts
  • Far into the night he lay thus, unsleeping, now and again uttering that low moan.
  • Extract from : « The Eye of Dread » by Payne Erskine
  • Hollow-eyed and unsleeping, they continued their task of reviving people suffocated by the fumes or strangled with ashes.
  • Extract from : « The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers » by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
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