waken

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

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 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

He said: "Anybody who thinks we are going to roll over and accept this will have to waken up the reality we are not".

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2022

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

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

From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2013

"Heavy weather" not only mirrors the patients' psychic turmoil and confusion; it wakens sensuous private memories.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 22, 2010

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

"I am glad, maybe at the last minute, the PM has wakened up to the serious threat that this poses to the union," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2020

He was wakened suddenly by a noise he had never heard before.

From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis

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

“As core as ritual is, it’s a wakening practice to live lives of courage. Social justice is potentially more important to shape Jewish identity,” Jacobs said.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2015

Then other servants, wakening, came down to build and light a fresh fire at the hearth.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer