Example Sentences

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The past five years I have been awakening.

From Time Magazine Archive

Slowly through four long years I have been awakening to the need of God.

From Soul of a Bishop by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

There cannot be a doubt as to the fact that, while the Turkish power has been declining, the powers of good and evil throughout Christendom have been awakening into life. 

From Rome, Turkey, and Jerusalem by Hoare, Edward