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waken

How to use waken in a sentence

Drink, and go to sleep—sleep so sound that you waken only when Moukir and Nakir, the death angels, sift soul from body.

GOD WILLS IT!WILLIAM STEARNS DAVIS

The servant, who carried her breakfast, reported her asleep, and the careful mother would not let them waken her.

ALONEMARION HARLAND

Humphrey and Pablo both set off, and then Edward went to waken the boy, still lying on the bed.

A conscience that had overslept itself began to stir and waken.

QUINALICE HEGAN RICE

"Death must come to all," some one would waken up to murmur.

And how she shook her husband, and tried to waken him, but without effect.

She said she very often does that, and it is best not to try and waken her.

I let my head drop upon the table and feigned sleep, and without attempting to waken me, he withdrew.

Someone has said, "Our fates lie asleep along the roadside until we waken them."

Does anybody imagine that gossip is one of the forces that waken conscience, and work for the redemption of our fallen brethren?

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985