waken
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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
According to the officers’ lawsuit, police spent 40 minutes trying to waken the couple, including using their sirens.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2022
It may waken you in the middle of the night.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2013
And even if that cry doesn't waken slumbering spirits, at least it might trouble their sleep!
From The Guardian ● May 22, 2013
He thus grasps and cries, and gazes, because he no longer fears to waken by any sound he can utter—by any movement he can make.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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 one morning 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. 20, 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
The carter wakens, snorts, stretches himself before climbing down.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
“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
The week before he was twenty-one Nat wakened with a feeling of something hanging over him.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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
Then wakening suddenly with a start I do not know where I am.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
