awake

Last night I tried it, lying awake at 3 a.m., and it worked.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

After arriving in the morning, the players stayed awake until evening.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

"I was awake the other week for four hours in the night, and my watch was like 'wow, great sleep!' - I literally was awake from 01:00 until 05:00," she says.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

The better view is hurray for the bond market, as investors awake at long last from nearly two decades of financial repression.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

But it wasn’t really the snores or smells that kept me awake.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

The Amazon MGM film stars Ryan Gosling as a teacher-turned-astronaut who awakes on a spaceship with a mission to save Earth from a sun-dimming phenomenon.

From Barron's ● Apr. 5, 2026

When she awakes, he lies to her about what happened, and season one's cliffhanger ending leaves viewers with the strong impression that Ellie is well aware of the deception.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2025

But then they encounter an aswang, a Filipino vampire, who awakes in Farrah an ancient and terrifying power.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 3, 2023

When she awakes, her friends are gathered around her.

From New York Times ● May 5, 2023

In the spring when the dragon awakes, I watched its turnings in the rivers.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

Satchell, who said the months at the Six Flags site were the highlight of her nursing career, told Dennis she’d awaked that morning sad to see it close.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2021

Peter Ricketts, formerly the head of Britain’s Foreign Office, said he had awaked to the news of Mrs. May “appealing to others to help her out of dilemmas of her own making.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2018

A few minutes earlier, Tangie Griffin had awaked to screaming; she was used to young Shaquem crying when he bumped his partially developed left hand.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2018

Knaak said not once during this spell has he awaked wondering how to engage with fans that day.

From New York Times ● Nov. 14, 2014

Later.—I must have fallen asleep, for I was awaked by Mina, who was sitting up in bed, with a startled look on her face.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

On the day Gloria Steinem died at 92, I awoke to a text from one of the friends I made all those years ago at Ms.; soon there were four of us on the thread.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

I awoke in Washington on a recent Thursday the proud owner of a pair of Donald Trump’s favorite shoes.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

"This awoke not just Michoacan, but all of Mexico," she told AFP while surrounded by bodyguards to keep would-be assassins at bay.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

The defendant said he awoke and went to the living room where his friend was asleep on the sofa and the complainant was awake sitting in a chair.

From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026

On Friday morning, March 4, 1881, after sleeping only a few hours, Garfield awoke to sleet and snow.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

GRENOBLE, France—One night last week, Tour de France leader Tadej Pogacar was fast asleep on the shores of Lake Geneva when he was suddenly awoken by a knock at his hotel-room door.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

Sajili said he was awoken by a fellow passenger as the triple-decker ferry began to tilt precariously.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

The mother and father were awoken at 03:00 GMT to the fire and attempted to reach the back bedroom where the children were sleeping.

From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025

He was told locals of an ancient village near Chepstow had awoken to find more than 50 holes mysteriously dug among the gravestones of their churchyard.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2025

He had awoken late in the morning to a sunny day that painted the snowy landscape in dazzling ivory hues.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

I do luxuriate in awaking to no news deadlines, playing pickleball when court fees are low and cycling to the beach on a weekday morning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

After awaking to his pet Labrador retriever, Hank, “going crazy,” Huntington Beach resident Jim Sena went to check his backyard, where he spied a masked intruder.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2023

After awaking, he tweeted that he was fortunate he fell ill in Britain instead of in the United States.

From Fox News ● Aug. 5, 2020

“We are unwilling to spin out our awaking thoughts into the phantasms of sleep, which often continueth praecogitations, making Cables of Cobwebbes and Wildernesses of handsome groves.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2020

Finally they fall asleep, awaking only when three Hitler Youths in uniform report for duty early the next morning.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti