Sample Sentences for
insomnia
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  • I had insomnia last night.
  • My hair was constantly going off in eleven wrong directions, and T. Ray, naturally, refused to buy me bristle rollers, so all year I'd had to roll it on Welch's grape juice cans, which had nearly turned me into an insomniac.  (source)
    insomniac = someone with an inability to sleep well
  • What had I done, other than become an insomniac?  (source)
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  • They had indeed contracted the illness of insomnia.  (source)
    insomnia = inability to sleep
  • That rowdy insomniac evening I didn't leave the hut, and I didn't see Prakash, but I learned more facts about him.†  (source)
  • Empty streets gave way to the constant swarm of tourists in midtown, the flash of video billboards offering every pleasure and purchase known to man, then to the trendy insomniacs of the Village who loitered over minuscule cups of flavored coffee and lofty discussions in outdoor cafes, and finally, to the sleepy habitats of the artists.†  (source)
  • After all, he said to himself, it's probably only insomnia.  (source)
    insomnia = an inability to sleep
  • Some insomniac up late.†  (source)
  • I think of everyone who might be awake with me—insomniacs, thieves, anarchists, women with children who drowned in their baths.†  (source)
  • Perhaps she was also suffering from insomnia.†  (source)
  • Occasionally he passed a domovoi or a fellow insomniac, but the huge, rambling house was largely still.†  (source)
  • He was petty, refusing to give a prisoner her letters if she had not been present at mail call, and rigidly enforcing the TV hours, much to the displeasure of the insomniacs.†  (source)
  • So help me, if I ever got a bad case of insomnia, I'd hire him to sit in my room and talk.†  (source)
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