Words similar to wake-up

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:

The wake-up call comes an hour into the movie.
In other cases, incidents at other organizations had served as a "wake-up call."
One man seems to speak for many when he says his anti-Hashimoto vote was a "wake-up call."
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.
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."