wide-awake

How To Use wide-awake In A Sentence

• 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
• She had a carved fantail at her stern and an arching figurehead at the bow---a woman with wide-awake eyes. LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
• Another over-watchful Newbury "awakener" rapped on the head a nodding man who protested indignantly that he was wide-awake, and was only bowing in solemn assent and approval of the minister's arguments. Sabbath in Puritan New England
• The laughable element in both cases consists of a certain MECHANICAL INELASTICITY, just where one would expect to find the wide-awake adaptability and the living pliableness of a human being. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
• Melbourne, is a blue shirt, a pair of duck trousers, a straw hat or wide-awake, and what they call a jumper here. Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia
• Those magic little wands can transform your appearance, giving your eyes a bright, wide-awake look, regardless of whether the rest of your face is au naturel or made up to perfection.
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• The only other person of importance in the town was a worthy predicant, who evidently had not had his hair cut since the commencement of the War, and who had great difficulty in keeping his little black wide-awake on his head. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
• 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
• so excited she was wide-awake all night