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Example sentences for: wake-up

How can you use “wake-up” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

As newspaper headlines around the world were dominated by the bomb attacks on U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, a Monday op-ed piece in Nairobi's Daily Nation called the incident "a wake-up call."
The LAT refers to the development as "a wake-up call to tyrants around the world."
He told investigators "he wanted this to be a wake-up call to America to kill Jews."
However, the federal government, which has often acted as if federal employees were costs to be cut rather than assets to be valued, has only recently received its wake-up call.
These include: "wake-up call" (46); "above my pay grade" (41); "paralysis by analysis" (2); "new facts on the ground" (1); and "mano a mano " (1), which, as reader Jay Brida pointed out, is always misused (it's Spanish not for "man to man," but "hand to hand").