Sentence examples for proverbial wake from inspiring English sources

It was the proverbial wake up call.

It was the proverbial wake-up call -- not to eat better or exercise more.

Just as the proverbial Irish wake is not heartless or disrespectful and is instead a celebration of life, all that cooking that went on as Hurricane Ike raged through Houston was my mother's way of saying that if this was, in fact, life's last hurrah, then she and everyone around her was going to go out with a full and satisfied stomach.

Two weeks ago, I was chiming in at the proverbial water cooler.

Trust me, I don't make this assertion lightly, I say this only after years and years of waiting for this generation to take the proverbial bull by the balls, shake up the status-quo and wake up the living dead.

"In fact, in the wake of this football playing fag phenomenon, Knute is just a proverbial water boy".

Re "Distractions May Shift, But Sleep Needs Don't" (18 and Under, March 10): By demanding teenagers wake up at an "unnatural" hour for their circadian rhythms, we put them behind the proverbial eight ball.

The proverbial blank slate".

The title became proverbial.

BEE hives are proverbial models of order.

This is the proverbial black swan.