awaken

Example Sentences

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Here we are, 11 years later, still living in the surreality we first experienced on that day — like a nightmare from which we can’t awaken.

From Salon • Apr. 21, 2026

She saw the corporate demos as tools to awaken Xerox to the corporate value of the work being done at PARC.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

We encounter creation—God’s relation to the world—as something given: not something we authored, but the condition in which we awaken.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Guardiola tried to awaken the visitors with a double substitution at half-time, introducing Nico O'Riley and Raya Cherki.

From Barron's • Jan. 17, 2026

Feeling dizzy, I leaned against the crate, disbelieving all that was happening, thinking it all a dream—a bad dream—a nightmare, expecting to awaken any time and find that I was unscathed, that nothing had happened.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane