Example Sentences

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The art on view, however, is no whirlwind tour of America’s expansive creative landscape but a somnambulist slog.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

It’s a perfect beginning to this kind of somnambulist theater, where the subconscious is the star, trying to make sense of everyday anxieties and concerns while life has been irrevocably changed by a global pandemic.

From New York Times • May 20, 2021

While Coons went down on inadvertent, Murphy got dinged on somnambulist and Flake did not survive malfeasance, Kaine whirled through the rounds and made time for stealing journalists’ glasses.

From Time • Jul. 28, 2016

Open was praised, or accused, of crowning the man most likely to aim away from the pin, avoid the rough and make 72 consecutive somnambulist pars.

From Washington Post • Jun. 15, 2013

Lourdes did not battle her cravings; rather, she submitted to them like a somnambulist to a dream.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García