Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Walking in sleep; sleeping while in motion; also, characterized by somnambulism.

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  • adjective walking as if, or while, asleep

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Examples

  • But Bergen tells the story with passion and with new details about some of the heroic individuals who tried to rouse the Bush administration from its "strangely somnambulant" state.

    Peter Bergen's "The Longest War" 2011

  • Dolly Parton sings her toe-tapper Travelin 'Thru (from Transamerica); nominated lyricist Kathleen Bird York, backed by somnambulant human mannequins and a burning car, sings Into the Deep from Crash; Three

    Oscar showtime: This year vs. others 2009

  • If she sits at the piano, she only stays a moment and stares at the keys, then lights a cigarette and wanders, somnambulant, out the door.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • But Bergen tells the story with passion and with new details about some of the heroic individuals who tried to rouse the Bush administration from its "strangely somnambulant" state.

    Peter Bergen's "The Longest War" 2011

  • The fact that the Bush administration was strangely somnambulant about the al-Qaeda threat is puzzling.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • The fact that the Bush administration was strangely somnambulant about the al-Qaeda threat is puzzling.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • The fact that the Bush administration was strangely somnambulant about the al-Qaeda threat is puzzling.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • The fact that the Bush administration was strangely somnambulant about the al-Qaeda threat is puzzling.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • If she sits at the piano, she only stays a moment and stares at the keys, then lights a cigarette and wanders, somnambulant, out the door.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • On one particular night -- at around 2 a.m., if his memory serves -- Brett Bishop's mucky, somnambulant job was transformed by a shimmer of revelation.

    The American Oyster Paradise Richard Nalley 2010

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