How to Use consciousness in a Sentence

consciousness

noun
  • He hopes that he can raise public consciousness of the disease.
  • The events have become part of the national consciousness.
  • The medication caused her to enter an altered state of consciousness.
  • Seconds later, a person loses consciousness and starts gasping for air or stops breathing.
    Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Symptoms of ingesting meth may include: chest pain, racing heart, seizures, or loss of consciousness, among other things.
    Anna Gordon, TIME, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The only problem is that there is no empirical measurement of consciousness.
    Monique Brouillette, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2023
  • Proponents say this sensory isolation can lead to moments of pure consciousness.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2023
  • In the leftmost one, a 35-year-old woman named Saira Shehzad was lying flat on a bed, drifting in and out of consciousness.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Fifty years after the Paris Accords, the memories and lessons of the Vietnam era are fading in the public consciousness.
    Michael Peregrine, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • They are expected to open in a muddle of confusion and indifference, and then quietly fade from the national consciousness.
    Vulture, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The tendency for internal and external material to cross the threshold of consciousness.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • In the year since, a wave of mass shootings and high-profile cases involving allegations of police brutality has kept those issues in the public consciousness.
    Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 6 Feb. 2023
  • And if a gorilla’s consciousness does shift, what would that be like to the ape?
    Shayla Love, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2023
  • But in seconds my consciousness spun me back around the world.
    Jack O'Connor, Outdoor Life, 2 May 2024
  • Still, the 2008 war looms large in the collective consciousness.
    Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Sep. 2023
  • At what point in the changeover process would the person’s consciousness disappear?
    Calum Chace, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Adam Sandler is taking a trip to the stars — and into his own consciousness — in his new movie.
    Jack Smart, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The fragility of the American consciousness of the time required a stifling of Black thought.
    Gerald Nesmith, Essence, 1 Sep. 2023
  • But to play one of the great tragic parts is to stand inside Shakespeare's consciousness and to look out from the inside.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The performances in the film by Michael Douglas and Glenn Close are so well known and live on in public consciousness.
    Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • At some point, the fetus in the womb has consciousness, and killing it leads to negative karma.
    Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2024
  • It is marked by confusion, dizziness, a fast and strong pulse and loss of consciousness.
    Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 July 2023
  • They are not favoured with consciousness outside of how they are perceived.
    Hazlitt, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Research shows that bees are self-aware and may even have a primitive form of consciousness.
    Stephen Buchmann, The Conversation, 17 May 2023
  • But their power and skills are what have kept us in their thrall—and quietly raised our consciousness.
    Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 21 June 2024
  • This doesn’t need to be a result of the AI reaching consciousness and deciding that humans have to go.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • They were then given to me by my parents as a wedding gift and have always lived in my consciousness.
    Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The art of the Oscar campaigning has seeped into the larger consciousness.
    Matt Donnelly, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
  • In any event, 101 Ash St. seemed to begin fading from the public consciousness, even as the bills continued to mount.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2024
  • What are self-consciousness, fear of the future, existential worries, to the ocean?
    Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2023

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