waking

Example Sentences

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For him, the experience was similar to the feeling of waking up from a dream and wanting to go back so you can prowl around a little longer.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

We sent a reporter undercover, booking online consultations with both women while posing as the mother of a nine-week-old newborn, whose baby was waking frequently at night.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

If your sleep-trained infant is waking up just as much as they were previously, but you feel as if they’re able to get themselves back to sleep—sometimes without waking you up at all—that’s huge.

From Slate • May 3, 2026

The study, published in Communications Psychology, examined more than 3,700 reports describing both dreams and waking experiences from 287 participants between the ages of 18 and 70.

From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026

He’d been concentrating so hard on no waking the ice river that he’d forgotten that all this time she’d been carrying the ravenskin pouch.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver