Example Sentences

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There is a part of us it wakes up — a part we’ve been yearning to have awoken.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2023

Bitcoin, meanwhile, seems to have awoken from long hibernation during the so-called "winter" that followed numerous scandals including the collapse of exchange FTX.

From Reuters • Oct. 25, 2023

She claims to have put Logan to bed alive the night before his body's was found, and to have awoken to find him missing.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2022

Donald Trump must have awoken on the morning of Jan. 6 last year with a terrible sense of foreboding.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2022

As he leapt the wreckage of armor, Harry heard more shouts and screams; other people within the castle seemed to have awoken...

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling