He was lying in bed sleeplessly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a sleepless night. ,sleepless devotion to duty. ,the sleepless ocean. From Dictionary.com.
Karna, he passeth his nights sleeplessly from fear. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
That is what haunts me late at night as I turn sleeplessly. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth E. Evans: At The Heart Of Darkness] Reference
I had spent the whole night looking up at the moon sleeplessly. From Wordnik.com. [When I First Met Amrita Pritam] Reference
After a tempest, heaves and falls the ground-swell sleeplessly. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference
I rolled onto my side, facing the wall, and stared sleeplessly at the timbers. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
Most of that night went by sleeplessly for Lusena as she reviewed the conversation. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowan]
Oh, I was hopelessly and sleeplessly lost in the pea soup newborn fog myself a couple times!. From Wordnik.com. [Endymion’s Sleep | Her Bad Mother] Reference
As he had lain sleeplessly watching the pallor of the dawn he had savagely corroborated the decision. From Wordnik.com. [Witch-Doctors] Reference
He tossed sleeplessly the rest of the night and got up at dawn feeling as if he had not been to bed at all. From Wordnik.com. [The Memory of Mars] Reference
Nor was he in his quarters aboard the Mongoose, waiting sleeplessly for the approach of the Alliance fleet. From Wordnik.com. [Oberheim (Voices)] Reference
In the seat behind a recruit reading Donald Duck, the moon that tosses around sleeplessly, from side to side. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
What is there to do before retiring to the sleeping car to be jolted sleeplessly about for seven or eight hours?. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
So he had his bed (Bett) moved into the room at twilight and sleeplessly waited for the middle of the night to come. From Wordnik.com. [Reading, Begging, Paul de Man] Reference
There are 75 people who work tirelessly and sleeplessly usually to make the people who sit in these chairs look good. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2007] Reference
And 'Lijah, staring sleeplessly through his blindless bedroom-window, felt a growing unrest in the very marrow of his bones. From Wordnik.com. [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference
His face was lined and careworn, his eyes and his entire mien bore witness to days and nights of sleeplessly continuous work. From Wordnik.com. [Galactic Patrol]
With training camps set to open this month, NFL coaches are sleeplessly trying to squeeze every advantage out of their rosters. From Wordnik.com. [Need a Running Back? Try Your Backup] Reference
Throughout the night which followed, she tossed sleeplessly upon her bed thinking of the magic cloak and longing to possess it. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Zixi of Ix]
Samuel had fallen silent hours ago, but Simon was still awake, staring sleeplessly into the darkness, when he heard the screaming. From Wordnik.com. [City of Glass] Reference
The daughter lay sleeplessly in the bedroom, with the flickering light coming from under the door to the living room of the suite. From Wordnik.com. [The Fourth Hand]
She thought of him all day, and at night she tossed in her little bed sleeplessly, recalling the happy hours she had spent with him. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
But those two sexless devils guard thee sleeplessly. From Wordnik.com. [The Valley of the Kings] Reference
'Like a good landlord I am watching sleeplessly over my people. From Wordnik.com. [The Innocence of Father Brown: The Hammer of God] Reference
I have directed my efforts incessantly, sleeplessly, to fortify it. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
Creatures were stirring sleeplessly … including the mouse (gerbil). From Wordnik.com. [Holidailies 2008] Reference
To His eye looking sleeplessly down there is rest even as of emerald-green. From Wordnik.com. [Quiet Talks on the Crowned Christ of Revelation] Reference
So many parents are sleeplessly coping with their boys actually being in Gaza. From Wordnik.com. [Israelated - English Israel blogs] Reference
As he tossed sleeplessly from side to side, other problems leapt up to confront him. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel] Reference
At night I lay sleeplessly, pondering what could be, or possibly what could have been. From Wordnik.com. [[Help] Most Recent Posts] Reference
The long night passed anxiously and sleeplessly for most of the inhabitants of Bolsover. From Wordnik.com. [A Dog with a Bad Name] Reference
And Rafael tossed sleeplessly in his bed, rehearsing in the darkness the story he had been told. From Wordnik.com. [The Torrent Entre Naranjos] Reference
That night Cara tossed sleeplessly on her bed; she was sorry she had ever spoken of Marco to Jarman. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation] Reference
For the last twenty-four hours Merwyn had watched almost sleeplessly for the outburst to take place. From Wordnik.com. [An Original Belle] Reference
On the night following that event, the same that he had spent so sleeplessly in St. Martinville, she wrote a letter to. From Wordnik.com. [Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana] Reference
He could have cried out in his grief, as he lay all night twisting and turning in his bed, sleeplessly, a prey to his remorse. From Wordnik.com. [Jean-Christophe, Volume I] Reference
Their lament was for the dragon Ladon, that dragon with a hundred heads that guarded sleeplessly the tree that had the golden apples. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles] Reference
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