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Examples of wakeful in a Sentence
the mother remained wakeful until her child returned home
Recent Examples on the Web
Having the right pillow can make a big difference between a peaceful night’s sleep and a restless, wakeful one.
—Casey Clark, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2024
If bed and only bed will do, change up the environment for sleep vs. wakeful time.
—Lisa Strauss, Washington Post, 28 July 2024
Even in these moments of wakeful rest, your brain continues to rehearse and replay the past.
—Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 21 May 2024
That wakeful process is an essential part of creating a permanent memory.
—Linda Carroll, NBC News, 29 Mar. 2024
The team then applied zap and zip with this threshold value (of 0.31) to a distinct set of patients with severe disorders of consciousness—those either in a minimally conscious state or in an unresponsive wakeful one.
—Christof Koch, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2017
That’s thanks to the array of soothing sounds this machine offers, plus the timer function that shuts it off without causing a wakeful disturbance.
—Kayla Blanton, Health, 19 July 2023
In fact, in nocturnal animals, the natural chemical is active and associated with wakeful states rather than sleep.
—Tree Meinch, Discover Magazine, 3 Mar. 2023
But instead of triggering drowsiness, caffeine blocks adenosine from binding and leaves the cells in a more active and wakeful state.
—Kareem Clark, Discover Magazine, 10 May 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1546, in the meaning defined above
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“Wakeful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wakeful. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.
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