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

Soon the pantechnicon was awaking echoes in the drowsy old High Street.

From Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle by Jenkins, Herbert George

It was soon in the springtime of the year; the earth was awaking softly from her long sleep, and was by gentle degrees arraying herself for her summer pomp.

From Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset by Benson, Arthur Christopher