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
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
"I don't think Unferth took Gren- del's arm. His wrists weren't strong enough to lift it down without dropping it and wakening us all. He was a weakling, in more ways than one."
From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye
