Sentence examples for wake that from inspiring English sources

When it came to the 2012 marathon in Hurricane Sandy's wake, that constituency was wanting.

It was not quite an Irish wake — that will come later — but stories nonetheless spilled out.

And there is a wake that is vicious, funny and finally sad in its heartbreaking honesty.

It was a white wake that was being kept in the bedroom on the first floor.

"It is closure," he said of the deal, calling the agency's past failings "a wake that is behind the boat".

Flying lower and slower than manned aircraft, cropdusting drones create a swirling wake that applies pesticide even to the underside of leaves.

What I endured, however, was a wake that might conclude with drinks for the mourners but certainly not for the deceased.

So enthuses this one-off tribute - a tinny celebrity wake that seeks to induce in its viewers judders of nostalgia for the lamented chuckler.

This was a passionate, heaving organism, a tsunami that sucked eddies of litter airborne as froth in its wake; that shook, even shattered windows as it passed.

It is an unincorporated territory of the United States and comprises three low-lying coral islets (Wilkes, Peale, and Wake) that rise from an underwater volcano to 21 feet (6 metres) above sea level and are linked by causeways.

An American Wake was this sort of mock funeral/wake that people in Ireland would have for family members who were leaving to America during the potato famine, because there was a good chance they would not see them again.