wide-awake

Example Sentences

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All that suggests that the case will keep jurors wide-awake during the six or so weeks it is projected to take.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 22, 2024

I’m grateful to have seen it in a theater, which it absolutely deserves; audiences planning to stream it at home should know that it demands and rewards wide-awake attention.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2023

Here, for instance, is one of many passages in which our wide-awake heroine, Emma Averell, tries and fails to fall asleep:

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2022

On Saturday March 12, Bria Pugh found herself wide-awake at 4 a.m.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2022

But this time there was something that kept them as wide-awake as possible: for as soon as they had got out on to the grass, they found that they were not alone.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis