Example Sentences

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“Any time a cotton gin burned down in the South, they pointed to the Wide Awakes and other more radical antislavery Northerners and said, ‘This is arson.’”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2025

Since 2020 he has worked with the artist-led activist group the Wide Awakes.

From New York Times • Jul. 31, 2022

And get your plans in place for Prometheus Awakes, a collaboration between Graeae and La Fura dels Baus at the Royal Museums, Greenwich next Friday 22 June at 10pm; it's free.

From The Guardian • Jun. 15, 2012

The manuscript for Titus Awakes was discovered by Mr Peake's daughter in the family attic while "looking for a box of baby clothes".

From BBC • Jul. 5, 2011

Unpacks her dresses in the small empty bedroom downstairs, puts her Bible, Watchtowers and Awakes, a picture of Daddy on the little brown bookshelf.

From "Brown Girl Dreaming" by Jacqueline Woodson