waken

Example Sentences

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Longfellow ended his poem on a confident note, declaring that, “borne on the night-wind of the Past, through all our history, to the last,” Americans would “waken and listen” to Revere’s “midnight message.”

From Salon

Enough noise to waken the dead, but not this lot, I thought.

From Salon

The work of the sitcom is to waken them to this fact — as often as it takes.

From Los Angeles Times

Sometimes I waken up again and it's dark out there.

From BBC

They rushed home and wakened family members, knocked on neighbors’ doors, roused children from their beds, spreading the news.

From Literature