How to Use waking in a Sentence

waking

adjective

• Some of us have those dogs who want to spend every waking moment outside.
  — Shelby Deering, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2017
• Some coaches spend half their waking lives trying to come up with something clever.
  — Nick Canepa, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Oct. 2017
• Meanwhile, in the waking world, a medical team tries to save his life.
  — Devan Stuart Lesley, PEOPLE.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• This could be a week when achieving your joint ambitions dominates every waking moment.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 1 Dec. 2019
• As Radiohead’s singer and as a solo artist, his work always involves logic and visions that don’t work in the waking world.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 June 2019
• The demonstration was one of the first of several protests planned for the coming months, wherein youths would demonstrate their waking influence on the country.
  — Scott Feinblatt, latimes.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• In her shtetl, only young boys were indulged in their maniacal pursuit of mastery that led them to spend every waking moment poring over the Talmud.
  — WSJ, 22 Nov. 2018
• The question of what had happened within the Nordre Strømfjord shear zone nearly two billion years ago danced through every waking moment.
  — Longreads, 12 Mar. 2018
• In place of a vibrant society, the people of North Korea are bombarded by state propaganda practically every waking hour of the day.
  — Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 13 June 2018
• The Wake-Up Light is built on the premise that human beings have an easier time transitioning from the dream world to the waking world with the help of gradually brightening light.
  — Michael Desjardin, USA TODAY, 9 Jan. 2018
• In the years before every waking moment of our lives was documented online, knowledge of our ancestors was far more limited, with stories of one's heritage more often reserved to the confines of family lore.
  — Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 May 2017
• The aim, according to Google execs, is to make sure the information and search giant is intertwined with the devices consumers use in nearly every waking moment — from laptops to smartphones to voice speakers.
  — Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2017
• Discrimination is a hell hound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
  — Martin Luther King Jr., The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2018
• But Leonard, like everyone else Old Sheldon had known in his previous life, was long dead—so far gone that even his bones had eroded into dust by the time the cryo-pod spat Sheldon back into the waking world.
  — Scott Meslow, GQ, 25 Sep. 2017
• Because allostasis and interoception are continually ongoing in an animal’s life, valence and arousal are mental features that may describe every waking moment of that life.
  — Dean Mobbs, Scientific American, 20 Sep. 2019
• But Josh’s 16-year-old sister Lisa (Abby Nigro) has had it with the way her brother’s situation dominates every waking moment in the household.
  — Christine Dolen, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• As location tracking has become more accurate, and as more people carry their phones at every waking moment, the ability of law enforcement officers and companies like Securus to get that data has become an ever greater privacy concern.
  — New York Times, 10 May 2018