awake
verb (used with or without object)
to wake up; rouse from sleep.
were 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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So many affronts, so many pinpricks, day after day, had made his heart quiver, lodging in it to sleep the sleep of lethargic vipers, and they now were awaking to shake and hiss with fury.
From The Reign of Greed by Charles E. Derbyshire
Eastward, also, men were awaking to their isolation.
From The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor by Oscar Douglas Skelton
The woman trembled at the sound of his voice, as if she were awaking from a fearful dream.
From A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day by Fritz Oswald Bilse
While he looked down on her she had stirred, as if she were awaking from a dream, or a memory, and stretched out her hand.
From One Man in His Time by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Two minutes after Craig had been talking to Archie, the sweet, clear, ringing notes of his manly voice were awaking echoes far a-down the dark forest.
From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Gordon Stables
