awake
verb (used with or without object)
to wake up; rouse from sleep.
was awaking
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past progressiveof awake.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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"During these hours of anguish, I seemed to sense that the old Gallic cockerel was awaking from its torpor," he wrote in an email to parishioners that fellow priests quickly shared.
From Fox News ● Apr. 16, 2019
“During these hours of anguish, I seemed to sense that the old Gallic cockerel was awaking from its torpor,” he wrote in an email to parishioners that fellow priests quickly shared.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 16, 2019
I kept thinking I had slept and was awaking after dreaming of a tiger.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
Life was beginning to pulsate tumultuously in her veins; her heart was awaking.
From The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus by Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
Soon the pantechnicon was awaking echoes in the drowsy old High Street.
From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Herbert George Jenkins
