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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Look! the nations are awaking, Every chain that bound them burst!
From Poems by Denis Florence MacCarthy
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
"Now," said the steersman, "since you are awaking out of your faint you'll be telling us where you come from, because we want to send you home again."
From The Untilled Field by George (George Augustus) Moore
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
About half-past two of a morning in June a faint twittering under the eaves announces that the swallows are awaking, although they will not commence their flight for awhile yet.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies
