Sentence examples for received a wake from inspiring English sources

But I received a wake up call my senior year when my high school guidance counselor told me I had wasted my talents and needed a swift kick in the rear if I were to amount to anything.

Then, last summer, they received a wake-up call.

He had already received a wake-up call.

Stewart said he has received a wake-up call of another kind in the past month.

Littleton also received a wake-up call from his father, Ed, in Oceanside, Calif., wondering about his son's accomplishment.

He said Nigeria had received a wake-up call, and that Mr. Abdulmutallab, from a wealthy family, typified the aimlessness of the country's young elite.

Stanley Blumenstein New York, Dec. 7, 2010 • To the Editor: I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when I read that Secretary of Education Arne Duncan received a "wake-up call" when seeing the test scores.

It's now or never for Liverpudlian comic John Bishop, who received a wake-up call in January when he realised he was the same age as Elvis Presley was when he died.

The Parisian hotels received a wake-up call in 2010 after the French tourist ministry decided to award a new category of "palaces" to five-star hotels with exceptional hospitality.

Lewis had received a wake-up call six days earlier when Eunice Barber, the Frenchwoman who defeated her so comprehensively at the world championships in 1999 but who was injured in Sydney, had scored an impressive 6,736 points in Goetzis.

David Miliband admitted today that his campaign had received a "wake-up call" in the form of a poll putting him two percentage points behind his brother Ed in the Labour leadership contest, and urged people to get out and vote for him as the candidate the Tories feared the most.