Sentence examples for word wake from inspiring English sources
But whichever way you read it, two things are certain: first, that (as the word "Wake" would suggest) it's a Book of the Dead, dotted with tombs and rites of mourning; and second, that the technological media people it at every level – telephones and gramophones, films and television and, above all, radio.
Take the word "woke" itself – the fact that it was popularised in the Black Lives Matter movement but is now mostly applied by white people to aggrandise their own sense of political awareness in a manner that is almost too ironic to bear.
In other words, wake them up when it is June.
Grover Cleveland's wife is said to have roused him from slumber with the words: "Wake up!
From computers and cameras in his small chaotic office – under a patchwork of posters including one of a tiny aborted foetus on the end of a finger and another of a large photograph manipulated to look as if it were taken from inside one of the twin towers as a plane headed toward it on 9/11 with the words: "Wake up call from the Lord" – Horsley puts out a barrage of propaganda.
This sentence leads her into to her major pitch which is for the Strong American Schools campaign organized by her husband and Eli Broad to, in Broad's words, "wake up the American people" about how bad their schools are.
"The Autobiography of Malcolm X," Malcolm X and Alex Haley Malcolm X's words woke me up to the real America.
A fairly sound sleeper usually, those six words woke me up with a start and made me jump out of bed right away.
In the past musicians couldn't talk directly about sex so it was referred to euphemistically through the word love (wake up little suzy).
It is time for trade ministers to take a keener interest in social welfare or in other words, to wake up and smell the artificially priced coffee.
For years, most liberal-arts schools seemed to put career-services offices "somewhere just below parking" as a matter of administrative priority, in the words of Wake Forest's president, Nathan Hatch.
