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Example sentences for: woke

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The president woke up to this possibility at about the moment it was realized, and started lobbying for passage of the treaty a day after it became too late.
On the last day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, I woke to the news that presidential adviser Dick Morris was about to resign over reports that he had been consorting with a $200-an-hour prostitute.
Toward the end of Friday's Nightline debate, after Al Gore had called Bill Bradley's health-care proposal a "voucher" plan for the third time, Bradley finally woke up and smelled the danger.
On August 7, 1998, National Security Advisor Berger woke President Clinton with a phone call at 5:35 A.M. to tell him of the almost simultaneous bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Boy, it woke me up in a hurry.