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.
• Among those who may wish to avoid self-consciousness: the writer of this story.
  — Jonathan Lethem, The New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2022
• 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
• We will not be missed because there will be no human consciousness alive capable of doing the missing.
  — Daniel Oppenheimer, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2022
• Lacking brains and consciousness, they’re driven mainly by external stimuli through the nervous system.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2022
• That fear is the basis of Lewis’s book—fear of not knowing the meaning of life, of consciousness being self-deception, and of losing a clear memory of his love.
  — Edna Bonhomme, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2022
• Not as a scientist, an activist or even a politician, just a common-sense human being, who wanted to use his fame to maybe raise people’s consciousness without preaching or lecturing.
  — Holly Gleason, Variety, 9 Nov. 2022
• In a way, that’s exactly how California has perpetuated its grip on the public consciousness.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• The design itself feels otherworldly, its gaping chasm between kitchen and living room unsettlingly off, but in a way that creeps into the audience's consciousness.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Nov. 2022
• His temperament is florid, expansive, exuberant, even when his reflections are shadowed with the tragic consciousness that informs his movies.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 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
• 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
• They are not favoured with consciousness outside of how they are perceived.
  — Hazlitt, 12 Apr. 2023
• Yes, there's a lot of magic, a lot of romance, and a surprising amount of class consciousness.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 1 Jan. 2023
• Research shows that bees are self-aware and may even have a primitive form of consciousness.
  — Stephen Buchmann, The Conversation, 17 May 2023
• But their power and skills are what have kept us in their thrall—and quietly raised our consciousness.
  — Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 21 June 2024
• There’s more than a hint of the Ogdoad in these two, a sacramental yet heretical consciousness.
  — Joy Williams, Harper’s Magazine , 14 Dec. 2022
• The film features nudity and plenty of hard to watch moments as the two women, who share one consciousness, inject themselves with the film's titular serum.
  — Sabienna Bowman, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2024
• Her parents worked to unlock the secret world of Makayla’s consciousness, with remarkable results.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024