Wake in a sentence as a noun

He told the whole story adding he didn't want to wake his wife so he grabbed what he could.

We didn't need major corporations like Google campaigning to wake us up.

If I wake up in the morning and have control I can think "today I'm going to make my company so ******* awesome, yeah!

And it goes onWe need to wake up and see that those that "protect" our safety have reduced us to a state of fear worse than that which we are trying to prevent.

Wake in a sentence as a verb

You have completely mischaracterized him as being careless, from a guy who used to wake me up at 5am just to check the smallest details of a story.

This value proposition may have paid in a big way for founders in select companies but it has also left large numbers of seriously harmed founders in its wake over the years.

I was kind of hoping that competitive pressure from Microsoft and Amazon and more recently Facebook would make us wake up collectively and start doing universal services.

When you were a child, would any of you have believed that one day in the early 21st century, you would wake up in a world where your own government spies on each and every single citizen, plus whoever is connected to them in another country, where they send agents to newspapers to oppress the freedom of the press?I mean, isn't this almost surreal?

Wake definitions

noun

the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event); "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how many had been injured"

See also: aftermath backwash

noun

an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii

See also: Wake

noun

the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward; "the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe"

See also: backwash

noun

a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; "there's no weeping at an Irish wake"

See also: viewing

verb

be awake, be alert, be there

verb

stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"

See also: awake arouse awaken waken

verb

arouse or excite feelings and passions; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred"

See also: inflame ignite heat

verb

make aware of; "His words woke us to terrible facts of the situation"

verb

cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM."

See also: awaken waken rouse arouse