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:

  • In other cases, incidents at other organizations had served as a "wake-up call."

  • "It's a wake-up call," said Dr. Smith of the results.

  • The wake-up call comes an hour into the movie.

  • "A wake-up call for American consumers," is how one activist described the event.

  • 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."


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