wake up
Example Sentences
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You wake up worried about the world—what fresh horrors have transpired overnight?
From Slate ● Nov. 1, 2026
“We still think it’s all a nightmare. We will probably, you know, wake up and he will come back,” Hossen said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
I wake up, fall out of bed, drag a comb across my head.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
Sometime later, Jason arrives and demonstrates a knack for reviving from naps the average human wouldn’t wake up from.
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
He would just wake up with kind people, people who believed in magic.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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