8 example sentences using wake.
Wake used in a sentence
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
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"
an island in the western Pacific between Guam and Hawaii
See also: Wake
the wave that spreads behind a boat as it moves forward; "the motorboat's wake capsized the canoe"
See also: backwash
a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; "there's no weeping at an Irish wake"
See also: viewing
be awake, be alert, be there
stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
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"
make aware of; "His words woke us to terrible facts of the situation"