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a warning to take action concerning something that was overlooked or neglected
the bombing was a wake-up call to strengthen domestic security -
a telephone call that you request be made a specific time in order to wake you up at that time (especially in hotels)
she left a wake-up call for 7 a.m.
How To Use wake-up call In A Sentence
- Mars gives your career dreams a wake-up call. The Sun
- When I use the term addiction, I mean it as a wake-up call. Your Moral Leader
- What sparked such fine songcraft is the sudden wake-up call of The Beatles, who were taking America by storm.
- 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
- I'd like a wake-up call, please.
- A wake-up call at seven tomorrow morning, please.
- She said the allegations must be a 'wake-up call' to the aid sector. The Sun
- It is a wake-up call to the now-grown-up Christopher's atrophied imagination.
- And both were a wake-up call to a mighty power to stir itself to action.
- I think it will act as a wake-up call. The Sun
