The phrase "awake around" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a context where you are describing being awake during a certain time or in a certain area, but it is not commonly used.
Example: "I tend to be awake around sunrise, enjoying the quiet of the morning."
Alternatives: "awake at" or "up around".
As she laughed at her 18-month-old daughter, who was still wide awake around 11 p.m., she told the crowd: "We tried to plan her nap time a little bit later.
I was awake around five-thirty and heard a big, muted whoomping noise.
Still awake around 2 a.m., James took to Twitter, declaring, "Now or Never!!" James, who has two million followers, said it was "just a personal message to myself".
In the mornings we would awake around five or six, struggle to leave the warmth of the sleeping bag, and go to the ablutions area.
A company captain in a military-police unit in Baghdad told me last week that he was approached by a junior intelligence officer who requested that his M.P.s keep a group of detainees awake around the clock until they began talking.
In her berth, with so little room and all the other passengers likely still awake around them? Standing up, swaying back and forth, pressed against a door, which anybody could come along and open, in that precarious space between the cars?
When the friend awoke around noon on Tuesday, the victim was unresponsive, the police said.
Mr. Chhantyal and his two similarly nocturnal roommates awoke around 2 p.m. on Sept. 11, a Friday.
Instead, I plunge my rubber-gloved hands into scorching water, loudly crashing pots and pans, making all the awake people around take notice.
When Jahi awoke, at around 7 p.m. on December 9, 2013, the nurses gave her a grape Popsicle to soothe her throat.
He wore a wrap overnight, during a fitful sleep, and when he awoke around 10 a.m.
