adverb
- in a wakeful manner; while remaining awake or alert
Examples
- She lay wakefully in bed, listening to every sound in the house.
- The guard stood wakefully at his post throughout the night.
- He spent the hours wakefully, unable to quiet his racing thoughts.
- The mother watched wakefully over her sick child.
- The dog remained wakefully alert to any approaching strangers.
- She stared wakefully at the ceiling, replaying the day's events.