sleep fitfully
Frequency: 6.52.1 per million words
To sleep in a restless or interrupted manner, often waking up.
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- She could only sleep fitfully after the stressful day at work.
- The baby would sleep fitfully throughout the night, waking every hour.
- He managed to sleep fitfully on the uncomfortable train seat.
- After drinking too much coffee, I could only sleep fitfully that night.
- The patient continued to sleep fitfully despite the medication.
- During the thunderstorm, the children would sleep fitfully in their beds.
- She had been sleeping fitfully for weeks due to her anxiety.
- The old man would sleep fitfully in his chair by the window.
- I could only sleep fitfully knowing the exam was tomorrow.
- The injured soldier would sleep fitfully in the field hospital.