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

"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

Each participant wore an accelerometer on their wrist for seven days, allowing researchers to track both step count and sedentary time, defined as time spent sitting or lying down while awake.

From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2026

I lay awake that night for a long time.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff