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wake - use in sentences
Object
- hour: I wake all hours of the night with fierce leg cramps.
- nightmare: I have this waking nightmare of hundreds of little Russians speaking English in a heavy Welsh farmer accent.
Converse of object
- refresh: The others had let Ako and himself sleep so that they would wake refreshed and able to memorize spells for the day ahead.
Preposition: from
- sleep: Apparently, this is what I look like on waking from sleep ( no Sleeping Beauty - I never got the good parts!
Adjective complement
- dumb: Kineo Newsletter Don't wake up dumber than you went to bed.
Preposition: of
- tsunami: Find out how her role changed in the wake of the tsunami.
- bombing: The charity is increasing its profile around London stations to offer support to commuters in the wake of the recent bombings.
- collapse: By contrast, Europe is stagnating and burdened with double digit unemployment, and Asia is floundering in the wake of financial collapse.
- disaster: In the wake of that disaster, some members of the order decided, on their own initiative, to revive the British branch.
- killing: In the wake of the killing, one Sonny Black Napolitano was made acting boss of the Bonannos.
Preposition: from
- coma: In Mondays are Red, Luke wakes from a coma to find that he has developed an extraordinary condition called synaesthesia.
Preposition: up
- call: Maybe these pics will be a wake up call for Jess.
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