How To Use Wake-up call In A Sentence

  • The window must have clonked itself open and shut at least a dozen times before the ‘tchay-kahve’ wake-up call signalled a close of play.
  • And just in case you drift a little too deeply into dreamland, the hotel offers a guaranteed wake-up call or that night is free.
  • Three distinguished professors send this memo - Five Half-truths of Business - as a wake-up call.
  • ‘It was kind of a wake-up call that we're not untouchable,’ said Logan, who lives in the District.
  • I'm told the tune is a huge pop anthem that will serve as a wake-up call to her diva rivals. The Sun
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  • After that wake-up call, we cruise alertly through a terraced landscape of peach and apple orchards.
  • This is a wake-up call for all historians, libraries, museums and archives to protect and preserve their material by microfilming them.
  • And yet, with his oddball, confusional comic style, he is an important wake-up call. Pattern Interruption Hall of Fame: Zach Galifianakis
  • The Ambassador said he hoped the statement would serve as a wake-up call to the government.
  • The next morning, drumming snipe provide my wake-up call, and, in soft sunshine, I wander down to the shore.
  • For many people, it was a ‘wake-up call, ‘which has led to considerable openness, concern, skepticism, and dissidence.’
  • A Brain scientist has teamed up with electronics wizards to design a system for giving dozy drivers a wake-up call.
  • A wake-up call at seven tomorrow morning, please.
  • Far from it being a wake-up call, it shows he's resistant to reforming. The Sun
  • Time for a wake-up call by taking over lottery funding for movies? Times, Sunday Times
  • For me, as a pure movie fan, the exploitation genre was just a welcome wake-up call, a chance to retrace the past and reconnect with an important lost artifact.
  • Many investors, however, take it upon themselves to give sleepy management a wake-up call.
  • For secular humanism, this should be a wake-up call, and a reminder of the days when humanist organisations fought for the right to publish uncensored information in the public interest.
  • The Ambassador said he hoped the statement would serve as a wake-up call to the government.
  • Could it be time for a wake-up call? Times, Sunday Times
  • But the latest fire should serve as yet another wake-up call to the authorities, who appear to have returned to their slumbers since the last fire.
  • May I have a wake-up call?
  • Mars gives your career dreams a wake-up call. The Sun
  • Far from it being a wake-up call, it shows he's resistant to reforming. The Sun
  • the bombing was a wake-up call to strengthen domestic security
  • She said the allegations must be a 'wake-up call' to the aid sector. The Sun
  • It was a wake-up call for us all. The Sun
  • The Ambassador said he hoped the statement would serve as a wake-up call to the government.
  • So no ducking under the duvet, then, when your little monster threatens to waken the neighbours, if not the dead, with his wee-small-hours wake-up call.
  • Ahmad Gharabli/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images WAKE-UP CALL: A Palestinian man called on Ramadan observers to wake up Wednesday for their overnight 'suhur' meal before the next day's fast outside the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City. Photos of the Day: August 10
  • Far from it being a wake-up call, it shows he's resistant to reforming. The Sun
  • Women, in particular, should take note of the Census results because there's a screamingly loud wake-up call in there for them too.
  • The success of extremist groups in the elections should be a wake-up call to all decent citizens.
  • In reality the outcome will be for some a wake-up call. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'd like a wake-up call, please.
  • It is a wake-up call for all cohabiting couples. Times, Sunday Times
  • she left a wake-up call for 7 a.m.
  • It should have made for a tense and nervy finish but the goal provided the wake-up call as City switched back on the concentration button and defended resolutely thereafter.
  • A food log can be a wake-up call to improve habits we didn't even know needed fixing.
  • This was a wake-up call because no one is going to give us anything. Times, Sunday Times
  • And since changes in the Arctic are considered bellwethers of what is to come further south, the researchers consider this their most urgent environmental wake-up call to date.
  • It could be a sobering wake-up call for someone so young and so unversed in the often treacherous ways of big business and high society.
  • In reality the outcome will be for some a wake-up call. Times, Sunday Times
  • TAREK FATAH, MUSLIM CANADIAN CONGRESS: This is a wake-up call for the Muslim community and it is a wake-up call for all who repeat five times a day that any woman whose head is not covered is a sexual object. CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2007
  • It was a wake-up call for us all. The Sun
  • Could it be time for a wake-up call? Times, Sunday Times
  • A wake-up call at seven tomorrow morning, please.
  • Mars gives your career dreams a wake-up call. The Sun
  • Maybe that in itself will be a wake-up call for her. The Sun
  • Last night's defeat should be a wake-up call for the team.
  • Those involved in the slaughter of wild horses and burros have blood on their hands, and what has transpired is a wake-up call to the Congress.
  • It proved a shattering wake-up call.
  • This was a wake-up call because no one is going to give us anything. Times, Sunday Times
  • The thwack should have been an early wake-up call but the Minstermen continued to stumble and fumble thereafter.
  • THE RING OF MY seven thirty wake-up call jolted me. Holly Would Dream
  • I think it will act as a wake-up call. The Sun
  • And both were a wake-up call to a mighty power to stir itself to action.
  • It is a wake-up call to the now-grown-up Christopher's atrophied imagination.
  • She said the allegations must be a 'wake-up call' to the aid sector. The Sun
  • A wake-up call at seven tomorrow morning, please.
  • I'd like a wake-up call, please.
  • But for Jews, the start of this recess coincides with the start of the Hebrew month of Elul, a month long wake-up call readying ourselves for the holiest days of the year. Rabbi Steve Gutow: Shofar to Congress: Wake Up! Work Still Needs to be Done
  • What sparked such fine songcraft is the sudden wake-up call of The Beatles, who were taking America by storm.
  • When I use the term addiction, I mean it as a wake-up call. Your Moral Leader
  • I'm told the tune is a huge pop anthem that will serve as a wake-up call to her diva rivals. The Sun
  • I think it will act as a wake-up call. The Sun
  • Maybe that in itself will be a wake-up call for her. The Sun
  • I think it will act as a wake-up call. The Sun
  • My wake-up call arrived when the amount of spam selling lists of e-mail addresses exceeded that pushing miracle diet drugs.
  • The poor turnout for the election will hopefully be a wake-up call to the government.
  • The Ambassador said he hoped the statement would serve as a wake-up call to the government.
  • Could it be time for a wake-up call? Times, Sunday Times
  • It is a wake-up call for all cohabiting couples. Times, Sunday Times
  • The service can function as a universal wake-up call or a timely reminder, but we like it best as a get-out-of-jail-free card.
  • Maybe that in itself will be a wake-up call for her. The Sun
  • Mars gives your career dreams a wake-up call. The Sun
  • This was a wake-up call because no one is going to give us anything. Times, Sunday Times
  • In reality the outcome will be for some a wake-up call. Times, Sunday Times
  • The last wake-up call of the space shuttle mission was Kate Smith's version of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America.
  • She said the allegations must be a 'wake-up call' to the aid sector. The Sun
  • Will this be the wake-up call that President Obama needs to realize that trying to play kissy-face with the GOP is just going to end up bruising his presidency? Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Wake-Up Call
  • The foundation bills the report as a ‘wake-up call for all Canadians, especially those living outside major urban centres, to take a look at their communities and their lifestyles.’
  • Every Saturday morning growing up, my wake-up call was the pteranodon in the opening credits of ‘Jonny Quest’. Mini-interview: C.L. Werner |
  • It was a wake-up call for us all. The Sun
  • A wake-up call at seven tomorrow morning, please.

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