wake
verb (used without object)
to become roused from sleep; awake; awaken; waken (often followed byup ).
wakes
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present tense formof wake (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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A self-described “workaholic,” Cook famously wakes up at 4 a.m. to read customer and employee emails, then hits the gym and badges into Apple Park when he’s not traveling for diplomatic meetings or supply-chain audits.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026
From the minute an athlete wakes, to the moment they go to bed, they are thinking about how they can optimise their performance and recovery.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
“There is this extraordinarily false narrative that the president wakes up in the morning and calls me and says, ‘Todd, go prosecute X or Y,’” Blanche said.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
Julian Hoffman’s remarkable new memoir begins with birds: “The sky was a harbor all of a sudden. Wherever you looked, wings furrowed wakes in the air.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
It’s how Juanita wakes up in the middle of the night—every night—needing to use the bathroom but too afraid to go into the hallway by herself.
From "Betty Before X" by Ilyasah Shabazz and Renée Watson
