Examples of use of rude awakening
1. Anyone who prophesies too blithely obviously risks rude awakening.
2. For some people, like Suzanne Rodgers, the day offered a rude awakening.
3. For here is where my rude awakening (mentioned earlier), comes in.
4. Rude awakening France had an early wake–up call to the presence of jihadis on its soil.
5. And for those whose houses were still at their original addresses, there was still a rude awakening.