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Example sentences for: wake

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White officers were given a month's leave in the wake of the explosion; a 1994 Navy investigation concluded that Meeks and the other "mutineers" were victims of racial prejudice but did not overturn the ruling.
In Mobutu's native Lingala language, according to one group of press reports, the name means "the all-powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and inflexible will to win, will go from conquest to conquest leaving fire in his wake."
The other quirk is that over the past year, eBay's stock price has not really moved much (although it did jump 12 percent in the wake of this latest earnings report).
2) Clinton is courageously exploiting public unease about guns in the wake of the Colorado tragedy.
But if you wake up one morning to read that Barry Diller is the head of the European Union (and that David Geffen is his deputy), well, remember where you read it first.