awaken

Example Sentences

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"I knew we were a sleeping giant that we needed to awaken in some way."

From BBC • May 28, 2026

Daily, she would awaken as early as 5 a.m. to review homework assignments before beginning class at 7 a.m. at Hesperia High.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

Here we are, 11 years later, still living in the surreality we first experienced on that day — like a nightmare from which we can’t awaken.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2026

We encounter creation—God’s relation to the world—as something given: not something we authored, but the condition in which we awaken.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

I fall asleep in the midst of these vain prayers, and when I awaken, my knees ache from the cold stone floor and my hands are numb.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein