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Definition of "sleepwalk" []

  • To walk or perform other motor acts while asleep; somnambulate. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "sleepwalk" in a sentence
  • "Huggins wasn't sure what the past tense of the word "sleepwalk" is, just that it described his team's first-half performance."
  • "Rather than sleepwalk in a stupor, God wants us to enjoy what has been given to us at birth."
  • "A mother reaches around the baby strapped on her chest to scoop up beads marked VINTAGE, V for the vast enchanted who sleepwalk through the fair, lifting tongs forged by a local smith, as though to salvage from a great fire icons of a past flimsy as a chain of paper dolls, bare as a brass fist with a missing flagpole."