Sentence examples for public wake from inspiring English sources

The Financial Times, it seems, now understands what's going on, but when will the public wake up?

Baxter Dury has performed live only once before: when he sang My Old Man in tribute to his father, at the public wake following Ian's death.

Paul Krugman asks, "When will the public wake up?" to the Bush administration's deliberate erosion of our economic-social base (column, May 27).

So the family has scheduled a public wake on Sunday at Ng Fook Funeral Services at 36 Mulberry Street in Chinatown.

In many ways it felt more like a public wake and, in the circumstances, the game itself was largely an irrelevance.

Mr. Krugman asks, "When will the public wake up?" People will be aroused to anger at the train wreck ahead only when the Democrats in Congress start showing some guts and begin exposing this administration's plan.

Keep telling it until the public wakes up and throws these thieves out of office.

"It is incredible," he said, adding that not nearly as many people attended the public wakes of Ed Sullivan and Billy Martin.

It claims the apparent groundswell in support is down to the "British public waking from the long, deep sleep".

And that will become a combustible problem when the public wakes up to find that expected spending won't materialize or that tax rates taken for granted must be raised.

A stand-up comedian, it was not until he won NBC's reality show, Last Comic Standing, in 2006 that the American public woke up to his talent, off the field at least.