How to Use sleepwalk in a Sentence

sleepwalk

verb
  • Her mother-in-law is sleepwalking with a gun.
    — Rachel Handler, Vulture, 6 Nov. 2025
  • There’s very few that can sleepwalk their way through the season and then turn it on for the playoffs.
    — Phil Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Cottin stands out because so many in the large cast seem to be sleepwalking through it all.
    — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Our children are not supposed to sleepwalk through live-shooter drills.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 30 Mar. 2018
  • But almost 7% of adults have sleepwalked at some point in their lives, according to the same study.
    — Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 23 Oct. 2024
  • This didn’t feel like a team sleepwalking through a trip to Manhattan.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • For her part, Anna sleepwalked through her classes, rereading all his texts.
    — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
  • He also is also given to yelling in the middle of the night and sleepwalking.
    — Oline H. Cogdill, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Miami was sleepwalking through that first half.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 31 Oct. 2025
  • There's a higher rate of sleepwalking in people who have migraine with aura.
    — Ann Pietrangelo, Verywell Health, 23 July 2024
  • There's a higher rate of sleepwalking in people who have migraine with aura.
    — Ann Pietrangelo, Verywell Health, 28 Mar. 2025
  • And the Ravens had every reason to sleepwalk through Sunday’s game.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Instead, the movie sleepwalks with Mandy through a series of ongoing events.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 27 July 2019
  • Ambien can also lead to sleepwalking, which could result in some awkward bump-ins on the plane.
    — Moira Lawler, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Sep. 2019
  • The next night, Hyun-sun adds sleepwalking to his nocturnal repertoire.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Seeing them in person feels like sleepwalking, like some wistful secret had been pulled from the back of your brain and placed in front of you.
    — Tara Gonzalez, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The Badgers appeared to be sleepwalking through the first 2 ½ minutes of the game.
    — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2019
  • But one night after the Red Sox sleepwalked through a loss to the Blue Jays, an alarm went off.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2019
  • To circumvent the minefield is to neglect the person who somehow sleepwalked their way to its center.
    — Joseph Lezza, Longreads, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The imperative to act on our humanness—to refuse to sleepwalk, to refuse to get stuck—grows out of the scholarship.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 11 July 2022
  • The Buckeyes did not sleepwalk on Saturday.
    — Cameron Teague Robinson, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Coming off a 60-win season, the Bucks didn't sleepwalk through the preseason.
    — Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2019
  • That's not only a poll result; that's a scream for help from a base watching their representatives sleepwalk through a self-coup.
    — Christopher Bouzy, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Even just watching their kids sleepwalk through months of scholastic gloom and Zoom has given parents reason enough to be concerned.
    — Tom Bartlett, The Atlantic, 21 Apr. 2021
  • One night the toddler was sleepwalking and tried to nurse by sucking on her caregiver’s arm, according to Kroop.
    — Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Grace sleepwalking into the snow, the disappearance of a pet dog, Mia playing with her favorite doll—on faith?
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 7 Feb. 2020
  • The world managed to sleepwalk into the slaughter of that first Great War, which claimed more than 15 million lives.
    — Kevin Rudd, Time, 4 Apr. 2022
  • Ozzy was notorious for getting hammered, then sleepwalking in hotels, ending up in the lobby or the wrong room.
    — Stephen Rea, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Simmons also learned that there were other members of the Elliott family who sleepwalked.
    — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2025
  • But Alabama sleepwalked through the first half, going to the locker room stunningly tied at 10.
    — Paul Newberry, The Seattle Times, 6 Jan. 2019

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