Antonym: asleep. Similar words: wake up, take away, away, aware, award, await, get away, in a way. Meaning: [ə'weɪk] v. stop sleeping. adj. 1. not in a state of sleep; completely conscious 2. not unconscious; especially having become conscious 3. (usually followed by `to') showing acute awareness; mentally perceptive.
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151. The insistent calls kept me awake for thirty minutes, forty, an hour.
152. The self-control she exercised when awake was abandoned by her in sleep, her body breaking loose to admit her confusion.
153. About 2 a. m. he was jerked awake by noises.
154. Ashley Haworth-Roberts, London Is there any physiological reason why chewing gum always keeps me awake while driving my car?
155. Ike, former radio disc jockey, actually kept his congregation awake on Sunday mornings.
156. Men find work problems keep them awake, while women worry about family troubles.
157. I was still awake, but everyone else had gone to bed.
158. Knowing him, he'd keep them shut even if he was awake, just to get me confused.
159. It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. Baltasar Gracian
160. The dream can seem so real that he believes himself to be wide awake.
161. Phoebe was now wide awake again and irritated with herself.
162. We lay awake for hours, each immersed in his or her own thoughts.
163. I watched her struggling to stay awake and watched her fall asleep.
164. And staying awake long enough to get our kids into bed.
165. It was nearly three in the morning,(http://Sentencedict.com) but Jill was still wide awake.
166. She could sympathize with his chagrin but it was hardly enough to keep him awake at night.
167. Half dreaming, half awake, the hunter heard his hoarse, great-hearted hound.
168. The sound of footsteps on the deck above her head brought her fully awake.
169. Meanwhile, the cognitive dissonance of the experience should shock any uniformitarian in the audience fully awake.
170. Suddenly the world was awake to the dangers of nuclear weapons.
171. We were kept awake by the continual buzz of small planes overhead.
172. Before marriage, a man will lie awake thinking about something you said; after marriage , he'll fall asleep before you finish saying it. Helen Rowland
173. Next morning(sentencedict.com), Mildred was jolted awake by the bell ringing in a much more frantic way than usual.
174. I was happy to observe that one member of the jury was having difficulty in staying awake.
175. After an hour, though still wide awake, I crimped the page and turned off the light.
176. The mind may still be active and alert. 9 Don't lie awake for ages wondering why you are not sleeping.
177. Everything would be all right. What a fool she had been to lie awake worrying!
178. I read it in one sitting and lay awake that night disturbed by its power and frightened by its implication.
179. But after we got into bed, and after Frank had fallen asleep, I lay awake, listening to him breathe.
180. When awake, he lay motionless, coiled like a fetus and almost as helpless.
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