Sentence examples for your own wake from inspiring English sources

"It's like living through your own wake," Mr. Meinster said one recent Friday, just before the guests started arriving at his Chambersburg restaurant, one of only a half-dozen or so remaining of the more than 30 that once thrived in this old Italian neighborhood.

"In a way, it's like presiding at your own wake," he quipped.

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And what of Gandolfini's own wake?

Drunk: doesn't even get drunk at his own "wake".

He looks like Rick Wakeman at his own wake.

"It feels like I died," she told colleagues afterward, "and I've seen my own wake".

Now it's the scene of its own wake, a sight that strikes Abbie as unbearably sad.

Right on cue, on the morning of his own wake, he returned home.

"Is my father going to be late for his own wake?" she asked into the phone.