waken

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

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2025

If, for example, they don’t waken spontaneously in the morning, have tantrums, can’t focus in school or are sleepy in the afternoons, they might not be getting enough sleep.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2022

According to the officers’ lawsuit, police spent 40 minutes trying to waken the couple, including using their sirens.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2022

The entire first section of his novel No One Gets Out Alive feels like a nightmare that grows ever more relentless, from which we may never waken, and that’s my choice for sheer unrelieved fear.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 31, 2019

Once Mattie cried out, “Mama!” but she didn’t waken.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson

Finally, there is an a cappella performance of the Irish song of rebellion “A Row in the Town,” and it is performed with an anger that wakens the senses as it freezes the blood.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2018

As in the novel, Joseph wakens one morning to the news that he has been accused of some unspecified crime, of which he can never prove himself innocent.

From New York Times ● Aug. 20, 2015

But when Turi finally wakens ­Annalena Persson's Brünnhilde, she turns out to be squally in her upper register, which makes the final duet a bit anticlimactic after all that has gone ­before.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 18, 2013

“This move by the IOC will be the call that wakens a sleeping tiger,” he said.

From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2013

Charlie is asleep in the other room, but he wakens to the sound of his mother shrieking.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes

“Had that other player not been wakened by him falling, he may not have made it,” Beck said.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 16, 2022

Digital citizens and consumers must be wakened from their slumber, privacy advocates believe, and give thought to the security of their personal information, and how they are surrendering themselves to the power of their spies.

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2022

Uday Ibrahim Ali, a generator repairman, is routinely wakened for urgent fixes in Basra’s Zubair neighborhood.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2021

It was like being wakened five minutes into an induced sleep — “Go on, go on, let the house burn; I’ll be fine” — and I resisted any effort to bring me back.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2016

Too tired to swat at the hungry mosquitoes, I dozed off, only to be wakened by the sound of footsteps.

From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman

Barbara, who works with Joanne, said it was "such a shock wakening up to this".

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2025

And then I realized it was just my brain and my ears wakening up again to “this is what a theater sounds like.”

From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2021

“It’s certainly some from new ownership. And it’s certainly from a wakening up from the league governance side; that you can’t keep doing things the way they were doing it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2018

It’s a flash filled with a wakening, amused awareness that whatever Mr. Ryan’s characters are seeing at that moment might hold previously undetected potential — for diversion, for intrigue, for excitement.

From New York Times ● Oct. 15, 2015

But I looked neither to rising sun, nor smiling sky, nor wakening nature.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë