waken

Enough noise to waken the dead, but not this lot, I thought.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2025

The work of the sitcom is to waken them to this fact — as often as it takes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025

If, for example, they don’t waken spontaneously in the morning, have tantrums, can’t focus in school or are sleepy in the afternoons, they might not be getting enough sleep.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2022

The entire first section of his novel No One Gets Out Alive feels like a nightmare that grows ever more relentless, from which we may never waken, and that’s my choice for sheer unrelieved fear.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 31, 2019

At first he would not waken, until, with a jerk of his head, he sat up, shying from Jonathan’s touch.

From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi

Finally, there is an a cappella performance of the Irish song of rebellion “A Row in the Town,” and it is performed with an anger that wakens the senses as it freezes the blood.

From New York Times ● Oct. 22, 2018

As in the novel, Joseph wakens to the news that he has been accused of some unspecified crime, of which he can never prove himself innocent.

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2015

“This move by the IOC will be the call that wakens a sleeping tiger,” he said.

From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2013

"Heavy weather" not only mirrors the patients' psychic turmoil and confusion; it wakens sensuous private memories.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 22, 2010

Meanwhile the suitors’ ghosts were called away by Hermes of Kyllene, bearing the golden wand with which he charms the eyes of men or wakens whom he wills.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

“Had that other player not been wakened by him falling, he may not have made it,” Beck said.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 16, 2022

Digital citizens and consumers must be wakened from their slumber, privacy advocates believe, and give thought to the security of their personal information, and how they are surrendering themselves to the power of their spies.

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2022

Uday Ibrahim Ali, a generator repairman, is routinely wakened for urgent fixes in Basra’s Zubair neighborhood.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2021

"I am glad, maybe at the last minute, the PM has wakened up to the serious threat that this poses to the union," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2020

Too tired to swat at the hungry mosquitoes, I dozed off, only to be wakened by the sound of footsteps.

From "The Bridge Home" by Padma Venkatraman

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

But I looked neither to rising sun, nor smiling sky, nor wakening nature.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë