Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: wakes
IPA transcription: [w'eɪks]
Usage examples
  • And if he wakes up presently, where shall we be?
  • I shall then replace the flask before Marianna wakes.
  • 'If he wakes, all is up with us; now let's get past him on tiptoe.'
  • And when Grigory Vassilyevitch wakes up he is perfectly well after it, but Marfa Ignatyevna always has a headache from it.
  • "Good!" said I, with a break in my voice; and they came back, hurrying and fearful, to the margin of the water, leaving long wakes of black in the silver.
  • "Tell the lady, when she wakes, that I will tack a strip of felt to the rocker, and then it will make no noise at all," said the low and wheedling voice; and the child retired again.
  • "Probably he is taking a nap in that big house of his," said Johnny Chuck, "and if he is we'll have to sit here until he wakes up, or else go back home and visit him some other time."