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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His comrades were awaking and he turned to them.
From The Free Rangers A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler
One would have said that the dead were awaking.
From The Invasion of France in 1814 by Alexandre Chatrian
Then the Marquis, as though he were awaking from a dream, moved to the door, opened it and beckoned to David.
From The Wicked Marquis by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
It was a time of moral reformation, when men were awaking to the need of better and purer living.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
“James Harrow,” he managed to say, aware of an innocence and directness of thought and speech which were awaking in him faintest responsive echoes.
From Iole by Arthur C. Becker
