awake

“Everyone in the house is afraid now, and they’ve started forcing one member of the family to stay awake to protect the house,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

That night, her daughter-in-law stayed awake, scouring the internet for answers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

This broad set of information allowed the team to compare what people experienced while awake with the stories, settings, and emotions that appeared in their dreams.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026

The first one in and the last one out, with seven NFL championships built at an hour of the morning no camera was awake for.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

I lay awake a while longer, watching a searchlight sweep the rear wall in long regular arcs, hearing the distant calls of soldiers patrolling the walls.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Ryan Gosling stars in the film as a teacher-turned-astronaut who awakes on a spaceship with a mission to save Earth from a sun-dimming phenomenon.

From Barron's ● Mar. 22, 2026

When she awakes, he lies to her about what happened, and season one's cliffhanger ending leaves viewers with the strong impression that Ellie is well aware of the deception.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2025

When Phillips awakes, she’ll squeeze her eyes closed and try and coax the vision to return.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2023

Mohsin Hamid on the inspiration — and the global rise in tribalism — behind “The Last White Man,” in which a man awakes to find he’s turned.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2022

The night awakes to buzzing and to cries and barks.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

Satchell, who said the months at the Six Flags site were the highlight of her nursing career, told Dennis she’d awaked that morning sad to see it close.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 16, 2021

Peter Ricketts, formerly the head of Britain’s Foreign Office, said he had awaked to the news of Mrs. May “appealing to others to help her out of dilemmas of her own making.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2018

A few minutes earlier, Tangie Griffin had awaked to screaming; she was used to young Shaquem crying when he bumped his partially developed left hand.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2018

The hotel staff, realizing it had awaked a lioness, swiftly rustled up an empty room on the 39th floor, where Ms. Jones ordered up a bottle of Champagne and fresh orange juice.

From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2015

Retired worn out; slept soundly; awaked by mate telling me that both man of watch and steersman missing.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Residents in Kumamoto prefecture awoke on Wednesday to the aftermath of the quake, with images showing debris on the streets and collapsed buildings, including the worship hall of the 19th Century Yatshushiro Shrine.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026

I awoke in Washington on a recent Thursday the proud owner of a pair of Donald Trump’s favorite shoes.

From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2026

"This awoke not just Michoacan, but all of Mexico," she told AFP while surrounded by bodyguards to keep would-be assassins at bay.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

Toni Morrison wrote before dawn, before her children awoke and she had to go to her publishing job.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026

She was curled up, as though she had long ago decided to take a nap tucked into the space and never awoke.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

GRENOBLE, France—One night last week, Tour de France leader Tadej Pogacar was fast asleep on the shores of Lake Geneva when he was suddenly awoken by a knock at his hotel-room door.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

They were awoken by seeing flames and immediately dialled 999.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

Sajili said he was awoken by a fellow passenger as the triple-decker ferry began to tilt precariously.

From Barron's ● Jan. 26, 2026

Palace night duty manager Abel Clarke said his room was above the golden toilet exhibition and that he was awoken by a fire alarm.

From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2025

For Dr. Atchley, who’s doing some of the foremost research in the field, the questions suggest he’s awoken from his own blind faith in technology.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

I do luxuriate in awaking to no news deadlines, playing pickleball when court fees are low and cycling to the beach on a weekday morning.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

After awaking, he tweeted that he was fortunate he fell ill in Britain instead of in the United States.

From Fox News ● Aug. 5, 2020

She looks forward to awaking each morning and helping her kids choose and paint that day’s riddle.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2020

“We are unwilling to spin out our awaking thoughts into the phantasms of sleep, which often continueth praecogitations, making Cables of Cobwebbes and Wildernesses of handsome groves.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 17, 2020

I kept thinking I had slept and was awaking after dreaming of a tiger.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel