wide-awake

How To Use wide-awake In A Sentence

• His face was rugged and wrinkled, and tanned to the tint of old oak; his eyes black, beadlike, and fierce, and a shock of sooty hair escaped from under his battered wide-awake nearly to his shoulders. Uncle Silas
• [Illustration: LITTLE PRUDY'S CAPTAIN HORACE.] "You wide-awake little boys, who make whistles of willow, and go fishing and training, -- Horace is very much like you, I suppose. Prudy Keeping House
• Researchers found that a midday siesta is all you need to return your brain to its early morning, wide-awake state of receptiveness.
• Following the steps of the young wide-awake, Miselle saw him deliver the pontil, with the lantern still attached, to a listless individual seated upon a bench whose long iron arms projected far in front of him, while an idle pontil lay across them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864
• Again, the gospel's apocalyptic imagery denotes the end of an age and calls the people to a shared, wide-awake clarity of purpose.
• All these three had stood him in good stead, especially the last, which kept him wide-awake, and enabled him to sneeze a yellow hole in the drift, whenever it threatened to ingulf his beard. Mary Anerley
• But it was not fair to leave Ed alone on the bridge, and suddenly he was not exhausted anymore, he was joyfully wide-awake. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
• Murray hesitated, his complexion turning slightly green at the idea of a wide-awake, close-up view of the corpse.
• so excited she was wide-awake all night
• Back in 4-H we used to "hypnotize" the chickens when we needed to move them, or crate them - much easier with a sleepy chicken than with a wide-awake, squawky one! The Kitchn