How to Use wake-up call in a Sentence

wake-up call

noun

• The loss to the Celtics was a wake-up call for the Heat.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Nov. 2021
• Some saw the school board vote as a wake-up call for Democrats.
  — Hanna Panreck, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2022
• And for a wider range of investors, the near-miss is a wake-up call.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
• The goal was a wake-up call as the tide turned back in the Warriors favor.
  — Mike Morea, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 11 Nov. 2021
• The pandemic served as a wake-up call for a many of us.
  — Mike Weinberger, Rolling Stone, 27 July 2022
• Watch the moment Ariella gives her mom the best wake-up call!
  — Sarah Scanlan, USA TODAY, 12 Jan. 2023
• And wild food is the antidote: a wake-up call for the senses.
  — Gabriel Popkin, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2022
• Her now-fiancé stepped in to cover the cost—but the moment was a wake-up call.
  — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 9 May 2022
• The Senate action this week was something of a wake-up call.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 19 Feb. 2022
• There's a buzz about some lazy Brood X cicadas that might have missed their wake-up call.
  — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 17 May 2022
• The invasion has certainly been a wake-up call for the West.
  — NBC News, 9 Apr. 2022
• The huge drain on government finances should have been a wake-up call.
  — Anna Home, Variety, 4 Feb. 2022
• So perhaps Tuesday was a wake-up call not just for Biden.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2021
• The loss was a wake-up call but the Magic maintained their perspective.
  — Khobi Price, Orlando Sentinel, 4 Oct. 2022
• Thankfully, no injuries, but the Eagles gave the Tide a wake-up call.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 11 Nov. 2021
• Bennett said the results in Virginia should serve as a wake-up call for the party.
  — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2021
• The Trump years and the Black Lives Matter movement really were a wake-up call for her.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2021
• Sara Gibson, the head roaster, calls it a wake-up call to customers.
  — Peter Millard, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2021
• The Chiefs got an early-season wake-up call in their loss to the Baltimore Ravens in Week 2.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 24 Sep. 2021
• There was no sleeping through that Comic-Con wake-up call.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2022
• Kishida said the Russian invasion of Ukraine ought to be a wake-up call for the region.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 11 June 2022
• First and foremost, U.S. shale got a wake-up call about its business model in 2020.
  — Paul H. Tice, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2022
• Leading during the pandemic was a wake-up call for many of us.
  — Gina Mastantuono, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
• Oregon can blame Daniel Susac, Chase Davis and its own late-inning woes for the early wake-up call.
  — oregonlive, 25 May 2022
• Covid-19 put things into perspective and was a wake-up call.
  — Petra Zink, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021
• The report of an apocalypse near miss came as a wake-up call to Reagan.
  — Evan Thomas, Washington Post, 22 July 2022
• For many Americans, the pandemic has served as a wake-up call.
  — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 17 May 2022
• The pandemic should have been a wake-up call—instead, emissions have climbed once more.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 27 Dec. 2021
• This is a wake-up call kind of game for the Cardinals in my estimation.
  — Adam Burke Vsin, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2021
• The loss of her grandmother Loretta, in August of that same year, was a bitter wake-up call.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 5 July 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024