adjective
definition
Not asleep; conscious.
synonyms
definition
(by extension) Alert, aware.
example
They were awake to the possibility of a decline in sales.
synonyms
Examples of awake in a Sentence
I was awake half the night.
She was still awake an hour later when Alex came through the door.
Betsy was awake when I returned.
Seeing as I was awake anyhow, I did a bit of surfing for info about our guest.
Then, on Christmas morning when everyone is awake, we lounge around in our night clothes while we open presents.
They would not awake until the sun had smiled lovingly upon them.
The Vedas say, "All intelligences awake with the morning."
For a long time she lay wide awake with her eyes closed.
To be awake is to be alive.
The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life.
He often fell asleep unexpectedly in the daytime, but at night, lying on his bed without undressing, he generally remained awake thinking.
By dawn she was awake again - ready to get started.
The sounds of the ocean and the sea breeze lulled her to sleep last night and gently drew her awake before sunrise.
Drowsiness was irresistibly mastering him, but he kept awake by an excruciating pain in his arm, for which he could find no satisfactory position.
It was a lucid dream; half awake, half asleep.
He was only awake a few minutes and then fell asleep again.
She spoke until she drifted into an uncomfortable doze only to awake when he released her.
He was awake now, and improving.
Toby was awake and sitting, fascinated by Lankha.s soft hands.
She couldn't have been more awake before she left the house.
The next thing she knew, Alex was shaking her awake and telling her they were changing planes.
She was still awake.
She ate, drank, slept, or kept awake, but did not live.
Hours later they were still awake, talking intermittently, taking comfort in one another.
I want him awake with his wits about him when we talk.
Hey, fella... you awake?
Talal shook her awake far too early.
Then there was only silence and the night sounds of the old building as Cynthia lay awake next to this man she loved.
You are actually fully enlightened, fully awake, fully realized NOW.
The usual form was to keep the driver awake through the night by quizzes based on climbing guidebooks.
When he reached his sister's room his wife was already awake and her merry voice, hurrying one word after another, came through the open door.
In some ways dreams are repressed thoughts that are released during the dream cycle as a way to relax and see things from a different perspective than we might when we are awake.
Later that night she woke and lay awake thinking about the way he had responded.
She came awake with a start as thunder rattled the entire house.
He probably wasn't even awake enough to know who she was.
In six minutes he was up and awake, looking confused.
Before she started to drift into an in-between place, she saw Darian stand and look around, awake for the first time in thousands of years.
He used to be awake instantly - another indication that this thing with Lori was troubling him deeper than he would admit.
Usually. We'll notify his doctor that he was awake briefly today.
At any rate, he was only awake for about 30 minutes.
The demonstrable rational necessity, instead of being innate, or conscious from our birth, may lie latent or subconscious in the individual mind; but for all that, when we gradually become more awake intellectually, such truths are seen to " carry their own evidence along with them."
While you may feel deep in sleep, the brain is moving at its highest level, similar to the level it goes through when you are awake.
Both lay awake, trying not to disturb the other while neither slept until hours after the sun finally slipped around the corner to the other side of the world.
Later, he lay awake, arms behind his head while she slept.
He didn't push himself awake but let his senses register the world slowly.
The assassin left him in peace, and he stayed awake the rest of the night, watching over her.
Despite her efforts to stay awake, she fell into restless sleep again.
Kris nudged Ully awake, motioning for the scientist to follow him out of the chamber.
She entered the bedroom quietly to see Toby awake and trying to get an uncertain Lankha to play with his stuffed animals.
Katie jerked awake from the latest one where she and Toby were running from the unseen demon down a sandy beach.