How to Use rude awakening in a Sentence

rude awakening

noun

• Thus, the Falcons could be in for a rude awakening in this game.
  — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 20 Nov. 2022
• Even for the many who voted for him, the specter of this coalition has served as a rude awakening.
  — Time, 10 Jan. 2023
• Being taught by Idol that the outside world might mock the parts of herself she was taught to embrace was a rude awakening.
  — Nico Lang, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2024
• King is one of those tragic figures ripe for a rude awakening.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• Ohio State’s front seven is going to be a rude awakening.
  — cleveland, 25 Nov. 2022
• There's no turning back and no backup plan, but Brandan is in for a rude awakening before his plane has even left the ground.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 10 July 2023
• Some couples are in for a rude awakening, setting up the recoupling to be a huge bombshell.
  — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 5 July 2024
• The writing is on the wall; directors who keep pushing cyber risk down the back burner may be in for a rude awakening.
  — Phillimon Zongo, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
• The result has been a rude awakening for Tesla investors.
  — Esha Dey, Fortune, 13 Jan. 2024
• But those who have been living it up in their remote-first or fully remote desk jobs since 2020 may be in for a rude awakening.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 23 Dec. 2023
• Rich Americans who have tried to avoid paying their taxes are in for a rude awakening.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 11 July 2024
• For some onlookers, the events of recent weeks offer a rude awakening.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• The first players to actually try VR sword duels, though, were in for a rude awakening.
  — Steve Haske, Ars Technica, 7 Oct. 2022
• Companies and investors who ignore this may be in for a rude awakening.
  — Justin Worland, TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
• The fact that two of the September 11 hijackers were Emirati citizens was a rude awakening.
  — Neil Quilliam, Foreign Affairs, 29 Dec. 2023
• As the moon and Jupiter clash, volunteering yourself for future obligations will lead to a rude awakening!
  — USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
• This has come as a rude awakening for millions of Chinese young adults, who have long been told that studying hard would come with the reward of financial stability.
  — Time, 23 June 2023
• As for Protestant identity, the 2021 British census provides a rude awakening.
  — Fintan O’Toole, Foreign Affairs, 21 Feb. 2023
• Yet anyone under the impression that zombies will be shuffling off AMC – to Buffalo or anywhere else – are in for a rude awakening.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 2 Oct. 2022
• Robby Ashford’s first road start provided a rude awakening against one of the nation’s best defenses.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 9 Oct. 2022
• As Pete found in his rude awakening, Donna is more complicated, more imperfect, and far more human than that.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2023
• When at last the play’s turbulence results in a rude awakening for Sidney and a sorrow no one is prepared for, we’re left to ponder what consoling signs the cosmos can possibly send to the shaken Brusteins.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• But Wigglesworth says those expecting increased ease are sorely mistaken and will be in for a rude awakening after their haircut.
  — Tayler Adigun, Essence, 2 Jan. 2024
• The latter says this new test was a rude awakening for their real counterparts, fraught with harsh weather, tough living conditions and, as the show will depict, the threat of not knowing what’s happening on the frontlines or back home.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
• Lastly, any boss who would rather put older employees out to pasture than benefit from their experience, is going to have a rude awakening in a few years.
  — R Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2024
• Cole Burston for Fortune FedEx shareholders got a rude awakening just over a year ago after the company warned of a sharp drop in package deliveries and yanked its profit guidance.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune, 1 Dec. 2023
• But some, such as Clarissa Arceo, describe leaving the city’s predominantly Latino student newsrooms as a bit of a rude awakening.
  — Tina Vasquez, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
• The urban professionals who could blithely avoid thinking about the war over the summer did get a rude awakening when the Kremlin started pressing them into military service.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 5 Nov. 2022
• Return-to-office is a rude awakening for millions of Americans who were forced to go remote or hybrid during the pandemic and discovered the benefits of work-from-home status.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 28 May 2024
• Reginald Scott and his family started their new year off with a rude awakening after discovering their car had been vandalized.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 8 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024