How to Use consciousness in a Sentence

consciousness

noun
  • He hopes that he can raise public consciousness of the disease.
  • The events have become part of the national consciousness.
  • The medication caused her to enter an altered state of consciousness.
  • This can reduce blood flow to the brain, leading to a brief loss of consciousness.
    Jennifer Welsh Published, Verywell Health, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Mars is critical to the long-term survival of consciousness.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2024
  • So, not playing into that, and kind of shifting your consciousness back to just being real about it.
    Evan Romano, Men's Health, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Wise never regained consciousness and died two days later in the hospital from blunt force trauma to the head.
    oregonlive, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Yet from my first consciousness of relations with other people, my grandmother has been my leadership model.
    Kathy Caprino, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Joyce gets a venue for her consciousness-raising articles and Doug gets to corner the female market with full-frontal male centerfolds.
    Karla Peterson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2022
  • As the world of wine trends towards an eco-minded consciousness, consumers are tasked with navigating a whole new vocabulary and a whole lot of questions.
    Kate Kassin, Bon Appétit, 21 Aug. 2022
  • For writers beguiled by the mysteries of consciousness and memory, the self is a perfect laboratory.
    Wsj Books Staff, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
  • Technically, the music is about the obliteration of human consciousness upon coming into contact with an alien text, and that zany premise is the appeal.
    Stephen Kearse, TIME, 8 Dec. 2024
  • More serious signs of an allergic reaction, known as anaphylaxis, can include swelling of the throat, difficulty breathing and loss of consciousness.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Try to make decisions in the consciousness that the assumptions governing them are largely the product, not of universal truths, but of the very opposite: a moment in time that will very soon have slipped into the past.
    Steven Desmyter, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Take note of who and what is present in your life, and start to bring your consciousness here, now.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Sep. 2022
  • And if a gorilla’s consciousness does shift, what would that be like to the ape?
    Shayla Love, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2023
  • But in seconds my consciousness spun me back around the world.
    Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 2 May 2024
  • Still, the 2008 war looms large in the collective consciousness.
    Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Stephanie Joyce: Claire lay there floating in and out of consciousness.
    Outside Online, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Tisci’s signature touch was felt in the body-consciousness of some of the clothes.
    Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Among those who may wish to avoid self-consciousness: the writer of this story.
    Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
  • At what point in the changeover process would the person’s consciousness disappear?
    Calum Chace, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Adam Sandler is taking a trip to the stars — and into his own consciousness — in his new movie.
    Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The fragility of the American consciousness of the time required a stifling of Black thought.
    Gerald Nesmith, Essence, 1 Sep. 2023
  • But to play one of the great tragic parts is to stand inside Shakespeare's consciousness and to look out from the inside.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • There’s more of a filter, a consciousness of the feelings of others than in Israel.
    Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The performances in the film by Michael Douglas and Glenn Close are so well known and live on in public consciousness.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • At some point, the fetus in the womb has consciousness, and killing it leads to negative karma.
    Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2024
  • It is marked by confusion, dizziness, a fast and strong pulse and loss of consciousness.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2023
  • So is this just Yost trying to get into the consciousness one last time before people go to the polls?
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 8 Nov. 2022

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