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How to use awake in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, verb

Awake means not asleep; conscious. Example: “They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.”

Examples of awake by meaning

adjectiveNot asleep; conscious.

  • By quarter to six all this had me so awake and agitated that even the Balinese wind chimes that I hung up in the garden to relax me began to sound like Big Ben.2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 86

adjectiveAlert, aware.

  • They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.
  • The great challenge facing every individual graduating today is to remain awake through this social revolution.1965 June, Martin Luther King, Jr., Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution

verbUsed in a phrasal verb: to awake to (“to become awake of something and its possibile effects or results.”).

  • It took her some time to awake to the dangers of her situation.

verbUsed in a phrasal verb: to awake to (“to be roused from one's sleep, due to a noise or other stimulus.”).

  • this morning, I awoke to the sound of my neighbor's barking dog.

More sentences with awake

  • It's too early for this sort of thing. I'm not awake yet.From the entry early
  • The man in the next bunk kept me awake all night with his snoring.From the entry next
  • He awoke at the crack of dawn, as was his wont.From the entry wont
  • The inclination of his head increased and he awoke with a start.From the entry inclination
  • We crept out on tiptoe so as not to awake the children.From the entry on tiptoe
  • My neighbor's dog is a constant barker that keeps me awake at night.From the entry barker
  • The incessant flashing of the neon sign kept the neighborhood awake.From the entry flashing
  • The mewings of the three kittens kept us awake for most of the night.From the entry mewing
  • One snorer can keep a whole room of sleepy people awake.From the entry snorer
  • After fifty-two hours awake, it sure will feel good to get some rack time!From the entry rack time
  • The locktenders awoke to a bargeful of timber lodged against their headgate.From the entry bargeful
  • One of my copatients in the psychiatric hospital kept me awake with his muttering and yelling.From the entry copatient
  • Most animals are awake at day and sleep at night.From the entry night
  • He sat through the dull lecture and barely stayed awake.From the entry dull
  • His desire for her kept him awake at night.From the entry desire
  • We lay awake for much of the night.From the entry much
  • The fizzings of the radiators kept him awake.From the entry fizzing
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:awoken.From the entry awoken
  • The dog's incessant barking kept the girl awake all night.From the entry incessant
  • I suddenly awoke to the possibilities of the new invention.From the entry awaken
  • The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes.From the entry lowing
  • I did my darnedest to stay awake.From the entry darnedest
  • The slumbering giant that was China has finally awoken.From the entry slumbering
  • Their constant cryings kept us awake!From the entry crying
  • Their constant weepings kept us awake.From the entry weeping
  • The patient is awake and conversational.From the entry conversational
  • The bathyphase of the metabolic process ran from late evening until shortly after the subject awoke, with the lowest point recorded in at three o'clock in the morning.From the entry bathyphase
  • He was also awake at times when his circadian rhythms were geared toward being asleep.2024, NTSB, Highway Investigation Report, HIR-24-05. From the entry circadian
  • I never canceled in the AM either until I awoke with a case of the screaming trots.2024 October 15, 118545, “Sub job cancelled on me”, in r/SubstituteTeachers. From the entry screaming trots
  • The baby is awake, trying to escape the swaddle I have imprisoned her in.2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 207. From the entry swaddle
  • He was probably still awake up there, Snapchatting by the light of the silvery moon.2019, Kate Atkinson, Big Sky, →ISBN, page 100. From the entry snapchat
  • Insects were now awake and playing between the pine branches and the leaf drift.2017, Helen McClory, chapter 42, in Flesh of the Peach, Glasgow: Freight Books, →ISBN, page 102. From the entry insectual
  • They sang awake Afo Bocoum's quiet wife and the women in the house of Ali the Griot.2016, Anna Badkhen, Walking with Abel: Journeys with the Nomads of the African Savannah. From the entry riverwoman
  • I was awoken by the voice of a distant muezzin calling the faithful to prayer.2015, Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen, ONE, page 266. From the entry muezzin
  • The next morning, I awoke feeling reinvigorated, revitalised, and many years younger.2015, Frank George, Time's Well: A Chronicle in Three Parts, Bloomington, I.N.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry reinvigorated

Meaning of awake

  1. adjective Not asleep; conscious.
  2. adjective Alert, aware.
  3. verb To become conscious after having slept.

Full definition of awake

Questions about awake in a sentence

How do you use awake in a sentence?
Awake is used as an adjective and verb. For example: “They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.”
What is a short sentence with awake?
“The patient is awake and conversational.”
What does awake mean?
Awake means not asleep; conscious.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: awake (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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