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Example sentences for "wake"

Lexicographically close words:
waived; waiver; waives; waiving; wakan; waked; wakeful; wakefulness; waken; wakened
  1. I didn't wake up this time until nine o'clock the next day, the rest of the party having gone off without awakening me, as a sort of joke.

  2. I wouldn't care To ever wake again if I could still Dream we was there forever on the hill.

  3. His advent seemed to wake the place out of the trance into which it had fallen.

  4. Miriam closed her own door softly, as though she might wake the boy, and spoke in whispers to people through the window, finally telling them to go away.

  5. Within a couple of hundred yards or so of her thousands of people lay asleep, and they would all soon wake into the disillusion, and the Strand would wake, and the first omnibus of all the omnibuses would come along.

  6. It made the big fellow wake up, and we hear he's been doing a lot of practice lately.

  7. That was burly Steve Mullane calling out as he came tearing along in the wake of Jack and Toby.

  8. It is difficult for a young man, who does not know what an ache means, nor what it is to wake up tired, to realize what real suffering all your little ailments cause you.

  9. Strangely enough, her last waking thoughts were of Hatty, not of Edna, and she was dreaming about her when the maid came to wake her in the morning.

  10. I don't think any of us can guess what it must be to wake depressed and languid every morning.

  11. She was wakened by her aunt, who returned from the city a short time before dinner--"I say Kitty Ray, wake up and go dress for dinner!

  12. There Kitty," cried Belle; "those are the birds that wake us so early every morning.

  13. She did not wake until morning; and then, surprised and amused at finding herself dressed, ran out to ask True how it happened.

  14. All right," cried Happie triumphantly, and ran away waving her hand to Gretta, who walked backwards looking after her, leaving a slight trail of paint in her wake which threatened trouble for her when it should be discovered.

  15. We wake from them to find that they are but dreams.

  16. I used to wake invaded by all sorts of sad impressions, and I did not find him on my path.

  17. How astounded we shall be when we wake up in heaven and find our hateful old bodies couldn't get in!

  18. We do not suffer, but wake up every morning bathed in a breeze that refreshes for the day; I mean we do not suffer while we keep still.

  19. I had something to wake me up this afternoon, viz.

  20. I'll not wake her, lest, if it be a phantom, it should vanish.

  21. That's a sign you have slept every night for this week past; for my part, I would not give a pin for a lover who could not wake for a month in absence.

  22. To illustrate what I mean by this, suppose you should wake up some night and find yourself in silent darkness and unable to move a muscle.

  23. Their first reports are so different from anything we have known that we discredit them entirely, are sure we must be dreaming, and put forth strong efforts to wake up.

  24. That they did wake each other: I stood and heard them: But they did say their prayers, and address'd them Again to sleep.

  25. In the wake of these words came confusion, noise, screams, cries of mortal terror.

  26. He will be the death of our great and divine Augustus", mused some of them anxiously and muttered curses in his wake as he slowly and stolidly made his way more and more deeply into the palace.

  27. Such a skull does not bode peace and concord; such a skull leaves in its wake the noise of bloody and cruel conflicts.

  28. Perhaps only the cowards fear them, perhaps they will wake the thirst of conflict and longing for victory in the brave.

  29. In the morbid gloom of tightly closed shutters, amid the monstrous visions born of alcohol, in the wake of obstinate wails for her lost first-born, his wife had conceived the insane notion of bringing a new son into the world.

  30. The stormy period of the political convulsion which shook Russia in the wake of the Japanese war, evoked a number of beautiful stories and essays from Andreyev's pen, thrilled and aflame with the love of budding freedom.

  31. In their wake flees the verger, stopping for an instant in the doorway he wrings his hands, and silence once more.

  32. The children go to sleep then with their minds under the influence of harmony and wake in the morning inclined to be peaceful and happy.

  33. I told him that I was the one, and that I had considered it a military necessity, and that if we were not furnished with wood, he would wake up some morning and find the old jail burned down.

  34. His tunes wake up the dragon; and Siegfried makes merry over the grim mate the bird has sent him.

  35. They accordingly wake up the dragon, who condescends to enter into bellowing conversation, but is proof against their proposition, strong in the magic of property.

  36. Nature acted upon this good advice, and Our Lady knew no more till a pair of chubby hands were pulling her curls and Ned's voice was screeching in her ear: "Wake up, Jessie Trent.

  37. It seems so wonderful to me to wake and find this changeless sunshine, day after day, as if no such things as storms could ever exist," said the lawyer, pleasantly.

  38. I was just as quiet as I could be, but they wouldn't wake up that way, so I had to pull Seppi out of bed; there was no other way to get him up.

  39. Let me see; to-morrow morning I must wake the roosters at three, and the sun at four, and the family must be up by five.

  40. Now climb up into the hay, both of you, and I'll wake you for an early start in the morning.

  41. Fritz, go wake the Twins," said Mother Adolf, when he came to the door of the shed where she was milking the goats.

  42. Fritz," said she, "I told you to be quiet and not wake the baby.

  43. In the morning they were awakened by the music of cow-bells, and by the voice of the old herdsman, who stuck his head up through the hole in the floor and called out "Wake up, my young heroes!

  44. There's nothing that will wake a fellow up so quick as the Hudson River rolling in on him.

  45. I hadn't expected to wake up in that way," answered Harry.

  46. He was swept off in the vortex that followed in the wake of this lady.

  47. In solitarie rooms these uprores keep, And beate at doores, to wake men from their slape, Seeming to force lockes, be they nere so strong, And keeping Christmasse gambols all night long.

  48. Oh, for God's sake, wake up and listen to me--I can save you still.

  49. That black-eyed jade too, that Molly sister of my Madeleine, will wake up and lead you a life, by George!

  50. Perhaps it's one reason why they have this game--to wake us all up and make us want to do something worth while.

  51. She was sound asleep, but Betty managed to wake her and get her into the hall without disturbing any one else.

  52. While thus commenting, a liveried servant presents himself and motions for us to follow him in the wake of the departing carriage.

  53. With perseverance I finally succeed in extricating myself and following in the wake of an intelligent-looking young man whom I fondly fancy I have enlightened to the fact that I am searching for the Sam-shue road.

  54. Late at night we depart, amid the glare and music of a violent thunder-storm, and in the morning wake up in the roadstead of Trebizond.

  55. Misgivings as to possible foul play mingle with speculations regarding this person's mission, as I follow in the wake of the Afghans.

  56. Presbrey will be glad enough to let him stay if it will only wake him up.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wake" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.