- present participle of waken.
wakening
Example Sentences
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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
"My mummy went to pieces, we all went to pieces, it was like a nightmare you were never wakening from, we just found it so hard to cope," Ms McCarry said.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 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
As I walked to the embassy, I listened to the gradual wakening of the city.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
