waken

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

It may waken you in the middle of the night.

From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2013

So we go off to the fowl-house to waken them.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

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

He forces his horse through the flames and wakens Brynhild, who gives herself to him joyfully because he has proved his valor in reaching her.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

“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

It was like being wakened five minutes into an induced sleep — “Go on, go on, let the house burn; I’ll be fine” — and I resisted any effort to bring me back.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 25, 2016

In the night he was wakened by a light, and he saw that Gandalf had come and was pacing to and fro in the room beyond the curtain of the alcove.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Now the fog burned away, the mist level lowered until she was deposited upon the shore of wakening.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury