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Example sentences for "cannot sleep"

  • But I cannot sleep and I wander through the palace From the kitchen to the immense garrets and I seem to hear behind the doors the quiet breathing of sleepers, and the fire upon the hearth sends out a little glow.

  • And if you knew the terror that is in my soul You would not treat me like a little child who says he cannot sleep.

  • But I cannot sleep and I open my eyes again in the black Nothingness.

  • Then she breathed, rather than articulated, with a voice that almost brought tears, so infinitely sad and sorrowful was it, "I cannot sleep!

  • Star, I cannot sleep; will you talk to me?

  • I lie down on the couch there sometimes," pointing to one in the room; "but I cannot sleep.

  • Well, talk then; I cannot sleep," pleaded Edith, to arouse her companion from her natural stupor.

  • I cannot sleep friend, I have those watches here admit no slumbers, Saw ye none yet?

  • I cannot sleep, strange visions Make this poor life, I fear'd of late to lose, A toy that I grow weary of.

  • I cannot sleep yet, where's the jovial host You told me of?

  • If he cannot sleep it is not simply because he is tired, but because he is so constituted that he cannot bring himself to let go his hold on consciousness until he has straightened out his tangles.

  • It is difficult to relinquish the belief that, however callous others may be, our nervous system is so delicately adjusted that we cannot work when others make unnecessary noise, and we cannot sleep if a clock ticks in our hearing.

  • Pause several times and say to yourself rapidly "I cannot sleep in this position.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cannot abide; cannot bear; cannot but; cannot consent; cannot describe; cannot forget; cannot imagine; cannot leave; cannot live; cannot love; cannot pass; cannot read; cannot refuse; cannot represent; cannot see; cannot tell; cannot think; cannot well; certain distance; general prices; life were; other districts; should endeavor; sweet lord; the book; think well