awake

Example Sentences

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The old-school kind where everybody is mostly well-behaved and polite, and the audience scrolls on their phones to stay awake.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

The U.S. stock market is offering everything they want—up and to the right, and no reason to stay awake at night.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

"Do you know the result which is keeping them awake in Number 10?," a Cabinet minister recently asked me.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

But it isn’t just Chinese EVs that are keeping American car executives awake at night.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

I lay awake a while longer, watching a searchlight sweep the rear wall in long regular arcs, hearing the distant calls of soldiers patrolling the walls.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom