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Examples of wakeful in a Sentence
the mother remained wakeful until her child returned home
Recent Examples on the Web
Lauren Goode: Who among us doesn't want to have a nap gently guided by our wakeful rhythm?
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Lauren Goode, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2025
Low to medium doses show a reduction in the alpha frequency of brain waves (which correspond to relaxed and wakeful states), along with rising entropy, a signature finding of sober brains sinking deeper into a trip.
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Oshan Jarow, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
Having the right pillow can make a big difference between a peaceful night’s sleep and a restless, wakeful one.
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Casey Clark, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2024
If bed and only bed will do, change up the environment for sleep vs. wakeful time.
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Lisa Strauss, Washington Post, 28 July 2024
Even in these moments of wakeful rest, your brain continues to rehearse and replay the past.
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Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 21 May 2024
That wakeful process is an essential part of creating a permanent memory.
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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.
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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.
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Kayla Blanton, Health, 19 July 2023
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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 11 Feb. 2025.
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