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The past four nights had been a sleepless blur as she watched the terror of Afghans desperate to escape all over television and social media—including her own family members.

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All the fear and sleepless nights and being afraid of tomorrow and returning to detention.

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It can be a great swap if you want to go really ultralight, but in buggy regions prone to mosquitoes, this may only result in a lot of sleepless nights.

That way, you’re set up and ready to go when the crazy sleepless nights begin.

Pregnancy exhausted me, and I barely made it through the initial sleepless months of having a newborn.

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It was a sleepless night in Chechnya for two lawyers from the Russian town of Orenburg, Sergei Babinets and Dmitriy Dimitriyev.

Mama, I understand your many sleepless nights / When you sit and think about father / Or how you tried to be the perfect wife.

I blame a sleepless night or free drinks at a cocktail party.

And behind the sleepless Moms will come binders full of freshly scrubbed lawyers looking to turn a buck on the news.

Now we are learning that it is not just sleepless nights looking after Prince George that may have unsettled his mood.

She moved slightly, like a dreamer in pain, as again she faced the creed she had hated through many a sleepless night.

So excited was he at the thought of the great honour that was to be his that he spent almost a sleepless night.

There were no more sleepless nights, fearing an attack from the dreaded rebel or the volunteer.

The story was brought to a proper and blissful conclusion; still Sue was sleepless.

They spent sleepless nights, and it was especially at such times that they would sing hymns.

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On this page you'll find 24 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sleepless, such as: fidgety, active, alert, antsy, anxious, and bustling.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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