AWAKE in a Sentence

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Gerald was awake, sitting on the sofa, his hands gripping his bullet head as if he wished to crush it between his palms.

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 Meanings and Examples of AWAKE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
awake
 v.  rouse from sleep;stir the interest of; excite
Classic Sentence: (158 in 11 pages)
1  Then he lay awake at night thinking of all the charming gallantries he might have employed; but he rarely got a second chance, for the girls left him alone after a trial or two.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  If any of the girls were awake, they'd know something was wrong.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  Melanie and Pittypat had gone to sleep hours before, but Scarlett lay awake in the warm darkness, her heart heavy and frightened in her breast.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
4  Gerald was awake, sitting on the sofa, his hands gripping his bullet head as if he wished to crush it between his palms.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  No ghost rose from that shallow grave to haunt her in the long nights when she lay awake, too tired to sleep.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  Sometimes he had stayed out all night and Scarlett, lying awake behind her locked door, hearing the clock count off the early morning hours, wondered where he was.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
7  Only then did he tiptoe downstairs, leaving the lamp burning brightly and the door ajar so he might hear her should she awake and become frightened.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
8  The night passed, a long night during which she lay awake until dawn, her ears strained to hear his key in the latch.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
9  I couldn't bear to lie awake in my room till morning.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
10  She lay awake viewing her situation in the crude light which Rosedale's visit had shed on it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
11  She lay awake, while he rumbled with sleep.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
12  The night telegraph-operator at the railroad station was the most melodramatic figure in town: awake at three in the morning, alone in a room hectic with clatter of the telegraph key.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
13  She lay awake till she heard the distant creak of a bed which indicated that Kennicott had retired.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  For several hours I lay there broad awake, feeling a great deal worse than I have ever done since, even from the greatest subsequent misfortunes.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
15  I was only half awake, but I decided that he might take the Cutters' silver, whoever he was.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
Example Sentence:
1  The hypnotic state actually lies somewhere between being awake and being asleep.
2  The howling of wild animals kept him awake night after night.
3  I could not relax and still felt wide awake.
4  All men whilst they are awake are in one common world;but each of them,when he is asleep,is in a world of his own.
5  She was awake during the operation on her leg.
6  I find it so difficult to stay awake during history lessons.
7  Suddenly he found himself awake and fully alert.
8  Sometimes my husband snores so loudly, it keeps me awake at night.
9  I lay awake for much of the night.
10  The traffic noise kept me awake.
11  He lies awake at night worrying about his job.
12  He likes to awake to the sound of a radio.
13  Tom's fearful secret and gnawing conscience disturbed his sleep for as much as a week after this; and at breakfast one morning Sid said: "Tom, you pitch around and talk in your sleep so much that you keep me awake half the time."