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
The combination of being nocturnal and being bombarded with sight and sound kept me wide-awake.
From "The World According to Humphrey" by Betty G. Birney
