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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "wakeful" in a sentence

    wakeful example sentences

    wakeful


    1. preoccupied with the idea that had kept him wakeful for


    2. It was during these occasional wakeful periods that Darkburst learnt how the Elders in Brightness's home sett had forced her mother to abandon her on an exposed hillside because she had been born with white fur


    3. A sort of wakeful sleep?


    4. for yourself the state of wakeful sleep and you will find it quite in


    5. It is as a man who journeyed and left his house and gave his authority to his servants and appointed every man to his work and 35 charged the porter to be wakeful


    6. Be wakeful then: since you know not when the Lord of the house comes in the evening or in the middle of the night or when the cock crows or in the morning; lest he come unexpectedly and find you sleeping


    7. However, just as I feel that the wakeful state may be inferior to the sleep state, I’m seriously considering the idea that the child is the father to the man


    8. face invading his brain to leave him wakeful, exhausted, and


    9. Although Amaranta Úrsula did not lose her good humor or her genius for erotic mischief, she acquired the habit of sitting on the porch after lunch in a kind of wakeful and thoughtful siesta


    10. These items were a just in case the Somali gangsters who had been terrorizing the area should wish to interrupt KK’s wakeful night

    11. He felt very keenly his want of resourcefulness in this matter of getting the money over from Germany, but he clung to the hope that a few more wakeful nights would clear his brain and show him the way; and meanwhile there was always the five-pound note in the drawer


    12. fate blesses the wakeful


    13. David began to utter sounds that would have shocked his delicate organs in more wakeful moments; in short, all but Hawkeye and the Mohicans lost every idea of consciousness, in uncontrollable drowsiness


    14. There had been no more than five hours' darkness and that of a pallid, twilit quality which kept him wakeful and restless


    15. I was still so engaged when, in one of my more wakeful moments, my eyes fell upon my hand


    16. But one of the girls, who occupied an adjoining bed, was more wakeful than Tess, and would insist upon relating to the latter various particulars of the homestead into which she had just entered


    17. Raffles was worse, would take hardly any food, was persistently wakeful and restlessly raving; but still not violent


    18. The wakeful times were a nightmare of confusion


    19. I seemed to become more wakeful, and myriads of horrible fancies began to crowd in upon my mind


    20. Before sunrise and sunset, however, she is very wakeful and alert

    21. She awoke long before dawn and lay exhausted and wakeful, with her eyes closed, thinking of the countless years she still had to live


    22. Yes, we became very wakeful; so much so that our recumbent position began to grow wearisome, and by little and little we found ourselves sitting up; the clothes well tucked around us, leaning against the head-board with our four knees drawn up close together, and our two noses bending over them, as if our kneepans were warming-pans


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    Synonyms for "wakeful"

    argus-eyed open-eyed vigilant wakeful waking light alert observant wary awake sleepless

    "wakeful" definitions

    carefully observant or attentive; on the lookout for possible danger


    (of sleep) easily disturbed


    marked by full consciousness or alertness