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In the wake of such a grisly screw up, it is tempting to play the blame game.
Cruz was told at the hospital Anderson had brain damage and might not wake up.
The Brawley case inflamed racial tensions in America and left victims like the falsely accused Pagones in its wake.
I wake up for no discernible reason, other than to assert my existence.
I think people think that I would just wake up in the morning and do Bollywood or the waltz, things I had never done before.
Who can say where the bloodbath, the spiraling destruction, the grim tornado that strews cadavers in its wake could end?
They wake you in the middle of the night, give you tea and a biscuit, and then you start your 12-hour shift.
It is not some benign magical sleep as shown on TV, where people wake up a year later and are instantly back to normal.
That is why The Daily Beast stands with Charlie Hebdo and published their controversial covers in the wake of the attack.
A quick search led me not only to the accusatory tweets, but to the explosion of internet chatter that followed in their wake.
Ten prisoners had been condemned to death by starvation in the wake of a successful escape from the camp.
The bedtop hitting his neck had been worked into the dream as his execution of the dream that we remember when we wake up.
Getting George to wake up before 7 o'clock is harder than getting a camel through the eye of a needle.
When I wake up, I make a point to divest myself of all my prejudices, ready to start the day.
I was feeling drowsy and so decided to make a cup of coffee to try to wake myself up.
During the course of the year, your roommate will wake up lying next to a hambeast he swears he thought was a 10 the night before.
After three runs, I was surfing the wake and letting go of the rope's handle with one hand so I could give the hang-loose sign to my buds.
At a family gathering, a wake or a Christmas hooley, other children would step forward to sing a rhyme or dance a hornpipe.
Trilby was the first to wake, her face barred with sunlight that slipped through the inadequate walls of the humpy.
Renewed religious fervour and fanaticism bloomed in the wake of the Black Death.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Mr. abs, when we are off yonder by that rise of ground you wake him up, will you?
The Duke of altern, costumed as a long carrot, fawned in her wake throughout the evening.
They laid Paralus upon a couch, with the belief that he slept to wake no more.
And the crowd which acclaimed her, the frantic crowd, followed in her wake.
Or perhaps it would be best to wake him up and give him two antibilious pills.
The Viceroy of Apulia and the Apulian barons followed closely in their wake.
Lost in the wake of DreamWorks' wittier Turbo, Disney's Cars spin-off flys low and slow.
I absolutely am worse, this very morning, for the efforts I had to make to wake her last night.
Large quantities of bacon were trailed in the wake of the ship, to the great satisfaction of the sharks.
In this damp weather it is awful, I wake up in the night and find it hanging over me.
They left a great, wide wake, as though continually unrolling a great wide parchment upon the sea.
I dream about it nights and wake up with my arms around the bedpost.
So keen the blade, so soft the touch, the sleeper did not wake!
It was said that whoever slept in it would not wake again for fifty years.
Jo was the first to wake in the gray dawn of Christmas morning.
Stryver shouldered his way through the law, like some great engine forcing itself through turbid water, and dragged his useful friend in his wake, like a boat towed astern.
Come, my beauties, it is time for us to be off, so wake up and come along.
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