Example Sentences

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Buenos Aires was awakening then to the scope of a national nightmare.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2022

Wednesday, as America was awakening to the rude arrival of winter.

From Washington Post • Dec. 19, 2019

I was awakening to a world divided by gender and Prince was my first genderfuck, shimmering: men can be this, women can be that.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2016

The 144th British Open, known in Europe as simply as "the Open," will get underway Thursday at about the time the United States was awakening to its workday.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2015

South of the Kell, the Wood was awakening from its long slumber.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo