Sentence examples for instead of waking from inspiring English sources

Now it appears that instead of waking up, the Department of Buildings hit the snooze button.

One morning, instead of waking up with a wet blanket underneath me, I woke up with a dark cloud above.

Instead of waking her husband, she tried the window catches, then went around checking the other rooms of the flat.

Instead of waking up and having that first cigarette or checking Facebook, spend those first few minutes smelling the roses.

It took Emily two seconds to decide to call Ian instead of waking either of the others; as usual, he took the call, albeit unhappily.

Finally "poured" into a limousine, he arrived home at 5 a.m. and scaled the security fence instead of waking his guard.

Your most embarrassing travel faux pas: Asking my Japanese host mother to rape me (okasu) at 8am the next day, instead of wake me up (okosu).

At the end, instead of Alice waking up, there's something more melancholy.

The idea is that instead of fully waking a phone some 50 times a day just to see the time or check for texts, the screen can constantly remain in low-power mode and give access to this info without draining the battery.

Back in October, for example, a number of Google Home Mini devices were shown to have malfunctioned and been persistently recording audio in the background in their owners' homes, instead of only waking up when a specific trigger word was used.

The idea is that instead of fully waking a phone some 50 times a day just to see the time or check for texts, the screen can constantly remain in low-power mode and give access to this info without draining the battery.