- present participle of waken.
wakening
Example Sentences
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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
"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
