awake - use in sentences

Modifies a noun

  • intubation: The patient is carefully prepared with a full explanation of why they are due to have awake intubation.

Subject

  • noise: That was until 5.30am when I was awoken by a very strange noise.
  • sound: At 2 o'clock on Saturday morning the father of 2 young children was awoken by the sound of a smoke alarm sounding downstairs.

Used with adjective complement

  • stay: This book is essential reading for photographers and artists looking for ways to stay creatively awake, aware, and alive.

Preposition: at

  • night: Back ache or a sports injury keeping you awake at night?

Infinitive complement

  • discover: On a night together aboard their boat Libby awakes to discover Nick gone and the boat, herself and a knife covered in blood.

Preposition: by

  • noise: That was until 5.30am when I was awoken by a very strange noise.
  • sound: At 2 o'clock on Saturday morning the father of 2 young children was awoken by the sound of a smoke alarm sounding downstairs.

Modifying Another Word

  • barely: Added to The Coffee Grounds on 10:27, 07 Nov 2002 I was barely awake.
  • fully: It is no joke, I am fully awake.

Preposition: from

  • coma: Against all odds, I awoke from the coma.

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