Sentence examples for sit awake from inspiring English sources

At some point, I turned to him and shared a thought I often have as I sit awake on a long-haul flight: I think, I told him, about the bags of mail in the cargo hold below, what fervor they contain, what lives they might alter.

He sat awake all night in my room as I drifted in and out of lucidity.

There had been nights in recent years when he had sat awake, a tumbler in his hand filled with chilly Perrier (as a young man, he would have had a glass of brandy), reading to Matt.

There is the woman who cut out her own liver to feed her sick mother, the boy who sat awake shirtless all night to draw mosquitoes away from his slumbering parents and the man who sold himself into servitude to pay for a father's funeral.

I sat awake that night, staring out the window out at a waning moon, wondering how an embryo's rights could ever supersede a woman's.

At virtually that same moment on March 23 that Ms. Thompson sat anxiously awake, her husband was outside Nasiriya, as his unit shelled paramilitary fighters and other Iraqis who had been attacking Marine and Army units there for days.

Take the following steps quickly to help you break this panic and start to ground yourself: Sit up quickly after awaking from your nightmare.

Whoever was awake sat guard; most often, I was the one who slept.

"Mommy, don't leave!" she sits up, wide awake.

Those awake, sat on the floor watching television--mounted on the wall.

To perform the experiments, we compared groups of birds that repeatedly performed specific movements for 30 60 min with control groups that either sat still but awake or were in other experimental conditions.