was awaking
- past progressive of awake.
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
Interest was awaking in England in American enterprises, and, fortunately for Keith, he had friends on that side.
From Gordon Keith by Page, Thomas Nelson
All the world was awaking now; the light was clear around them; the small birds were twittering in the bushes.
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by Black, William
