wake
Example Sentences
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Overnight temperatures are expected to drop in the wake of each wind event, with widespread lows in the 40s for most areas and pockets of lows in the mid-20s to low 30s, he said.
From Los Angeles Times
My husband either wakes up at 5:30 and works out, or I’ll give him an extra hour of sleep.
“It’s always a challenge, you wake up and you think you forget things, but you’re never gonna forget,” she said, recalling that painful era in her career.
From Los Angeles Times
Rosario, the foreman’s wife, had woken up at 4:30 a.m., as she always does, to make the couple a lunch of homemade tortillas, green beans and refried beans.
From Los Angeles Times
I woke up to find the ship hadn’t moved for six hours.
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