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

England were without Steven Gerrard and Paul Scholes and their absence told and though the home nation did take the lead through Robbie Fowler after 63 minutes, it served only to waken up the Italians.

From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2012

Torak longed to waken Renn and tell her everything.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

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

But when Turi finally wakens ­Annalena Persson's Brünnhilde, she turns out to be squally in her upper register, which makes the final duet a bit anticlimactic after all that has gone ­before.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 18, 2013

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

From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2013

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

Once when flying to Oman, I was wakened in my window seat by the sheer brightness of the flares shooting up from the Persian Gulf oil rigs below.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2021

Once more the sound of the Joseph Bell tolling out across the fields from Redwall wakened the Warlord.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

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

As I walked to the embassy, I listened to the gradual wakening of the city.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah