Tra từ sleepless - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

sleep‧less/ˈsliːpləs/ adjective
[Word Family: noun: sleep, sleeper, sleepiness, sleeplessness; adjective: asleep, sleepless, sleepy; adverb: sleepily, sleeplessly; verb: sleep]
1. a sleepless night
a night when you are unable to sleep:
　 ▪ Adrian spent a sleepless night wondering what to do.

2. unable to sleep:
　 ▪ She lay sleepless for hours, worrying.

—sleeplessly adverb

—sleeplessness noun [UNCOUNTABLE]

adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sleepless night
▪ She had spent a sleepless night wondering what to do.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
NOUN
night
▪ She had plenty of time to think it over during a sleepless night, and on the train in the morning.
▪ Sheila spent many sleepless nights figuring out how to deliver for her first major customer.
▪ A sleepless night had added to her pallor and the haunted look in her eyes.
▪ There are many life situations and emotional circumstances that can cause sleepless nights.
▪ Doing anything more led to agony, sleepless nights, months of drinking and moping and boring her closest friends to death.
▪ Thus begins the chronic cycle of tired days and sleepless nights.
▪ In the end l retreated to the sofa, where I spent a cold, uncomfortable and furiously sleepless night.
▪ He lives with them every day, and sweats them out on many a sleepless night.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the sleepless parents of newborn babies
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ask yourself: what will be causing them their sleepless nights ten years from now?
▪ Doing anything more led to agony, sleepless nights, months of drinking and moping and boring her closest friends to death.
▪ Having lain sleepless until the early hours, it was almost eleven-thirty the next day before Luce surfaced.
▪ Sheila spent many sleepless nights figuring out how to deliver for her first major customer.
▪ The four travellers passed a sleepless night, each thinking of the gift Oz had promised to bestow on him.
▪ There are many life situations and emotional circumstances that can cause sleepless nights.
▪ They brought him back to her six days later, ending one vigil of sleepless prayers and beginning another.