wide-awake
Example Sentences
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All that suggests that the case will keep jurors wide-awake during the six or so weeks it is projected to take.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
She does provide intricate detail about, for instance, how the station’s drinking water gets recycled from everyone’s urine, or how “the wide-awake, always-awake station vibrates with fans and filters.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
According to the wide-awake folks at Partners Coffee, the ideal ratio of coffee to water is 1:15.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2022
She was back to deuce with Arthur Ashe Stadium abuzz and presumably most of Britain wide-awake, as the match was broadcast in prime time in Raducanu’s home country.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2021
If I wanted to wake her, all I’d need to say is “Oprah” and she’d be wide-awake, hollering for her Coke-bottle glasses and for me to turn on the TV.
From "Ninth Ward" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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