Woke is an English word of 4 letters. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Woke meaning
- Awake: conscious and not asleep.
- Alert, aware of what is going on, or well-informed, especially of racial and other social justice issues.
- Holding progressive views or attitudes, principally with regard to social justice.
Using Woke
- The main meaning on this page is: Awake: conscious and not asleep. | Alert, aware of what is going on, or well-informed, especially of racial and other social justice issues. | Holding progressive views or attitudes, principally with regard to social justice.
- In the example corpus, woke often appears in combinations such as: woke up, the woke, he woke.
Context around Woke
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 9 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Woke
- In this selection, "woke" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, anti, fight, pain, values, ceos and ads stand out and add context to how "woke" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a non woke way and ads the woke activism these. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "woke" sits close to words such as cooling, motorcycle and palestine, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with woke
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The X-Men were woke before woke was a thing. (10 words)
Ayo sleeping mehson…time to be woke and stay woke. (10 words)
JK Rowling tried to warn children about Woke before Woke existed. (11 words)
Right-wingers would have a riot of fun with this - 'woke' values on culture fight 'woke' values on climate - but people claiming their preferences are actually 'cultural' (only a few generations old) is bullshitting whether it's climate-related or not. (41 words)
But in recent years, being ‘woke’ has come to mean having an intransigent intolerance of myriad, often very trivial and pointless things, and the broadness of the ‘woke’ charge sheet is growing absurdly long and is often utterly ridiculous. (39 words)
Woke, as referenced in the Miriam-Webster defines woke as being “aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues”, and there are indeed some important factors that marketers and brands need to be aware of. (38 words)
According to court documents, DePape allegedly woke Paul Pelosi shortly after 2 a.m., carrying a large hammer and several white zip ties, and demanded: “Where’s Nancy? (28 words)
We woke him with a splash of some fluid inna bucket we stole frum one of da tents along Skid Row, brother woke up and when he look in da broken mirror he cried wit joy! (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
The statements of woke CEOs, the woke ads, the woke activism – these cost a lot less than higher wages and better benefits for workers, or lower prices for customers.
And because this movie is two gay men playing two toxic straight men, it gave us permission to be anti-woke woke.
He said: "The idea of anything being ‘woke’ is often denied by those who others would describe as very ‘woke’.
Right-wingers would have a riot of fun with this - 'woke' values on culture fight 'woke' values on climate - but people claiming their preferences are actually 'cultural' (only a few generations old) is bullshitting whether it's climate-related or not.
She also commended Banks, who founded the “Anti-Woke Caucus” this year, for his opposition to the “woke Left,” as well as for his positions on big tech censorship.
The pain woke me up — but when I woke up, I still felt the pain and was paralyzed for about 15 minutes, not to mention the amount of fear and chills that I felt.
The uber-woke general claims that he’s “not even sure what that word truly means” — that is, “woke” — and that the United States military is fearsome, powerful, and ready for anything.
Woke, as referenced in the Miriam-Webster defines woke as being “aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues”, and there are indeed some important factors that marketers and brands need to be aware of.
Brown is a comic who makes “woke jokes”, he says, “in a non-woke way”.
JK Rowling tried to warn children about Woke before Woke existed.
The only "woke problem" are the insane rambling anit-woke people.
We woke him with a splash of some fluid inna bucket we stole frum one of da tents along Skid Row, brother woke up and when he look in da broken mirror he cried wit joy!
But in recent years, being ‘woke’ has come to mean having an intransigent intolerance of myriad, often very trivial and pointless things, and the broadness of the ‘woke’ charge sheet is growing absurdly long and is often utterly ridiculous.
The X-Men were woke before woke was a thing.
Here’s the bottom line: If you're woke about Trump, police, and conservative policies, be woke about China’s repression.
It could have played out as to-be-woke-or-not-to-be-woke stuff, but fortunately Ridley and Watts bring earnest performances to director Claire McCarthy's well-crafted production.
Ayo sleeping mehson…time to be woke and stay woke.
According to an affidavit, police were called to a home in Lafayette on March 19, 2020, after Kroeger’s boyfriend woke up to find Kroeger not breathing and not responding.
According to court documents, DePape allegedly woke Paul Pelosi shortly after 2 a.m., carrying a large hammer and several white zip ties, and demanded: “Where’s Nancy?
According to court documents, the man woke up about 11am on November 13, 2022, and went into the lounge room where he began to argue with his partner about what he was going to have for lunch.
Common combinations with woke
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- woke up 74×
- the woke 23×
- he woke 8×
- she woke 8×
- woke and 7×
- and woke 5×
- of woke 4×
- being woke 4×
- woke left 4×
- woke agenda 4×