Example sentences for: woke

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

  • One hears such stories with one's eyes unwet:She woke up one day and found that the TetOffensive had left her widowed with a totWho broke her heart as if it were a toy.Luck having given her one so-so try,Wrung out her life and left her bones to dry.

  • All I know is that when I woke up this morning, switched on CNBC, and saw the stock market was up big, I knew without being told that the ECI was lower than expected.

  • 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.

  • Formally correct but pretentious is the street name Camino del Monte Sol , which before it was paved was sometimes irreverently called Camino del Muddy Soil . Then there is La Fonda, the rather famous Harvey hotel that superseded the old Exchange Hotel when the local Anglos woke up to the touristic value of Spanish nomenclature and architecture.

  • 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.


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