How to Use consciousness in a Sentence

consciousness

noun

• 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.
• And if a gorilla’s consciousness does shift, what would that be like to the ape?
  — Shayla Love, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2023
• Still, the 2008 war looms large in the collective consciousness.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• It is marked by confusion, dizziness, a fast and strong pulse and loss of consciousness.
  — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2023
• They are not favoured with consciousness outside of how they are perceived.
  — Hazlitt, 12 Apr. 2023
• Research shows that bees are self-aware and may even have a primitive form of consciousness.
  — Stephen Buchmann, The Conversation, 17 May 2023
• This doesn’t need to be a result of the AI reaching consciousness and deciding that humans have to go.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• The art of the Oscar campaigning has seeped into the larger consciousness.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
• What are self-consciousness, fear of the future, existential worries, to the ocean?
  — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023
• To try and raise someone’s consciousness too much is just as tyrannical as trying to hold it down.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 13 Nov. 2023
• Whether an algorithm ever achieves a kind of consciousness may be beside the point.
  — Reece Rogers, WIRED, 20 Apr. 2023
• Long-haired and draped in tie-dye, he was determined to explore the outer reaches of consciousness.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023
• One key to bringing these groups back into alignment is to bring class consciousness back to the labor movement.
  — Raina Lipsitz, The New Republic, 20 Oct. 2023
• Twenty yards down the sidewalk, a man was smoking fentanyl and nodding out of consciousness with his pants down at his knees.
  — Eli Saslow Erin Schaff, New York Times, 13 May 2023
• Such consciousness and awareness is, of course, usually a good thing.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 1 Sep. 2023
• By now, America’s obsession with food allergies is a kind of white noise, a steady thrum at the edge of consciousness.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• A lot of what was in the popular consciousness was Richard as a caricature, this comic foil.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Those images have a direct impact on the collective psyche and consciousness of many of the people who see them.
  — Ruhama Wolle, Glamour, 14 Mar. 2024
• No spoilers here but rest assured her consciousness is raised.
  — Leanne Italie, Chicago Tribune, 29 Jan. 2024
• Once back in Poland, Singer scored his first major success with the publication of a story steeped in class consciousness.
  — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• That August afternoon by the ferry, M’s consciousness streamed out in a childlike voice.
  — Andy Newman Hiroko Masuike, New York Times, 3 May 2023
• Some of the court’s actions have been popular, but they have been outweighed by the unpopular ones in the public consciousness.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 26 July 2023
• The Nile has also made its way into the pop-cultural mainstream consciousness.
  — Angelica Villa For Artnews, Robb Report, 20 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024