Example sentences for: wakes

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

  • Los Penitentes cared for the sick, arranged funerals, and conducted the religious rituals associated with wakes.

  • The island is aligned almost east-to-west in the water so that sunrise wakes the eastern tip, proceeds to caress the length of the island, and kisses the western tip “good night. ”

  • Researchers from Berkeley and Columbia University will investigate the global distribution of human organs and look into urban legends, such as the one in which a drugged party-goer wakes up in a bath of ice water with his kidneys extracted.

  • Professors began moving from one school to another every few years, with little reason to care about the reputational damage they left in their wakes.

  • "Charlie Brown wakes up in bed with Suzanne Pleshette and discovers it's all been a horrible dream.


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