How to Use woke in a Sentence

woke

adjective

• The latest brouhaha over woke culture involves the children’s and young adult books of Roald Dahl.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• In fact, looking back on those early days, Superman was very woke.
  — Jay Michaelson, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2023
• The department’s role in advancing a woke agenda can be passive as well as active.
  — Michael B. Mukasey, National Review, 9 May 2023
• Nevertheless, so clever is FastHorse’s setup, and so thorough her twisting of the knife of woke logic, that Alicia, if anyone, is our hero.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat's traitorous America Last policies, we are done.
  — Isabella Murray, ABC News, 23 Feb. 2023
• Antonioni lesson learned, Davies transcends the shoe-gazing self-pity shown by so many of the world’s woke filmmakers who suffer sick Eros and sick Morality.
  — Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2023
• Kendi’s stark provocation that one is either a racist or an anti-racist epitomized the morality play that the right has come to describe as the essence of woke politics.
  — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2023
• His comments were an implicit rebuke of the company’s previous overlords who, in his opinion, had caved to the woke mob and Democratic elites.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 21 Mar. 2023
• Find out how to incite moral panic over otherwise inconsequential morsels of pop culture, such as which movie characters are Black and which brands are too woke.
  — Skyler Higley, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2023
• The New Right coalesced as part of a backlash against the woke excesses of the recent past—but railing against wokeness is always faintly embarrassing.
  — Sam Kriss, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
• Republicans had called that a woke policy that hurts retirees' pockets.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
• The causality works differently from what the woke adherents of diversity think.
  — WSJ, 8 Mar. 2023
• In between are the companies themselves, simultaneously accused of being too woke and not progressive enough.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Apr. 2023
• This understanding of the word, a broad awareness of societal injustices, continued to be the complete understanding of ‘woke’ well after these brief publications.
  — Theodore McDarrah, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• Milk Fed captures the specific, and truly bleak, loneliness of trying to break out in the Los Angeles stand-up-comedy scene while working for a faux-woke talent manager and concealing an eating disorder.
  — Ruth Madievsky, The Atlantic, 27 Dec. 2022
• Fink and his woke Wall Street buddies are using hardworking American’s money and far left activists to compel companies into submission and force behaviors on consumers.
  — Kyle Morris, Fox News, 28 Apr. 2023
• The Republican Party’s top priority should be to fill this void with an inspiring national identity that dilutes the woke agenda to irrelevance.
  — Vivek Ramaswamy, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2023
• With recruitment rates to the U.S. military falling, attention is turning to the rise of woke politics, which is undermining public confidence in America's military leaders.
  — Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2023
• With recruitment rates to the U.S. military falling, attention is turning to the rise of woke politics, which is undermining public confidence in America's military leaders.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
• Private and online venues will also fill a national need to teach Western civilization and humanities courses by non-woke faculty who do not institutionalize bias.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, Arkansas Online, 26 Dec. 2022
• The study’s authors pointed to rising spending on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs as an example of other rising costs associated with a woke corporate stance.
  — Bywill Daniel, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 15 Jan 2025