How to Use consciousness in a Sentence

consciousness

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  • 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.
  • 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
  • The customer fell to the floor and lost consciousness, police said.
    — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, The Arizona Republic, 28 July 2022
  • There is a lot of angst about the meaning of sentience and the meaning of consciousness.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 June 2022
  • But in seconds my consciousness spun me back around the world.
    — Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 2 May 2024
  • This can reduce blood flow to the brain, leading to a brief loss of consciousness.
    — Jennifer Welsh Published, Verywell Health, 2 Dec. 2024
  • When Eleven mind walks, Max's consciousness is nowhere in sight.
    — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 7 July 2022
  • Still, the 2008 war looms large in the collective consciousness.
    — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The soldier with the head injury was drifting in and out of consciousness.
    — Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 26 June 2022
  • 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
  • They were hanged for what would later be called class consciousness.
    — Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 8 June 2022
  • It is marked by confusion, dizziness, a fast and strong pulse and loss of consciousness.
    — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2023
  • Holder briefly lost consciousness and needed three staples in his head to close the wound, Jansen said.
    — James Queallystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022
  • John Pope, who is now 18, lost consciousness at one point during the encounter.
    — Holly Bailey, Washington Post, 7 July 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
  • They are not favoured with consciousness outside of how they are perceived.
    — Hazlitt, 12 Apr. 2023
  • As the crash’s memory has started to fade in the public consciousness, Jim — a real-life physician, to whom the series is dedicated — has waged a long and lonely crusade to uncover the truth of how hundreds of people lost their lives.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Higher states of consciousness, more and more happiness, culminating in enlightenment, come from that field, which is within everyone.
    — David Marchese, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025

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