awake
verb (used with or without object)
to wake up; rouse from sleep.
are awaking
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present progressiveof awake.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The music of the morn has already been heard, and nations are awaking and rushing to crowd around the altar as worshippers at the shrine of learning.
From Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro by Daniel Wallace Culp
People are awaking to a dim perception of the meaning of spiritual life, as exemplified in Jesus Christ.
From Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking
But women of all ranks, white and colored, are awaking to their need of the ballot for self-protection.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The tremulous morning is breaking Against the white waste of the sky, And hundreds of birds are awaking In tamarisk bushes hard by.
From India's Love Lyrics by Laurence Hope
Come, grief is all done for, The folded leaves creep from their beds in the bough: The seeds are awaking, The furrows are breaking, And the blessing of God's on the blackthorn now.
From Songs of Womanhood by Laurence Alma-Tadema
