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How to use awaken in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb

Awaken means to cause to become awake. Example: “Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.”

Examples of awaken by meaning

verbTo stop sleeping; awake.

  • Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.
  • For this growing set, the idea that we might have a fixed, natural lifespan is pure defeatism—“deathism” even, a spell from which we must awaken to realise our full potential.2025 October 25, Stephen Cave, “Threescore and many more”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN...

verbTo bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.

  • Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!
  • We hope to awaken your interest in our programme.
  • He tries to awaken in them self-respect and reverence for their own spiritual culture.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 446

verbOf something previously dormant, to become active.

  • Without change, something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens.1984, 20:05 from the start, in Dune (Science Fiction), →OCLC

More sentences with awaken

  • The blow to his head rendered him senseless; he didn’t awaken until he was in the ambulance.From the entry senseless
  • I was awakened from a dead sleep by my child pouncing on top of me from out of nowhere.From the entry pounce
  • The awakened baby began to cry.From the entry awakened
  • In the morning I am awakened by what I assume are ambulances but which are allegedly cicadas.2022 November 26, Virginia Feito, “Sweating Through a Honeymoon in Paradise”, in The New York Times. From the entry skeeter syndrome
  • I was met with the googly-eyed stare of someone who has just awakened from a deep sleep.2022, Wendy Willow, Silver Butterfly Wings. From the entry googly-eyed
  • We're awakened early in the morning to eat foremeal, followed by several hours of training.2019, C.K. Brooks, A Captive's Portion. From the entry foremeal
  • Surrealism, especially, could awaken people to a world outside social constraint.2016, Steven Frye, The Cambridge Companion to Literature of the American West, page 93. From the entry untrance
  • Though Bateman wanted the dungeon master to awaken and know his pain, he hadn’t.2015, Brad A. Braddock, Jason Pacy, “The Black Tree in the South Forest”, in The Village of Eben Hollow, United States: Black Rose…. From the entry dungeon master
  • He was awakened by a couple of burly police officers and huckled out to a waiting van.2013, Michael Munro, The Crack: The Best of Glasgow Humour. From the entry huckle
  • She said she was awakened abruptly Friday night by the kid next door setting off a firecracker.2011, Ken Casper, As the Crow Dies, page 120. From the entry firecracker
  • Anna awakens in a funk most days, and her mother’s chipperness only deepens it.2007 March 25, Liesl Schillinger, “What I’d Be Without You”, in New York Times. From the entry chipperness
  • Yes, the Chinese are as if they had just awakened from a long sleep.1988, Jörg Schuldhess, Who They Are and What They Do, Patis, →ISBN, pages 27–28. From the entry Zhongguo
  • Edward was awakened that night by a loud clattering noise which left an after-sound of high ringing.1985, Iris Murdoch, The Good Apprentice, Penguin, published 2001, Part 2, p. 189. From the entry aftersound
  • If by chance it falls asleep, the stone would drop and thus awaken it.1977, Lucia Liu Severinghaus, A Design for an Education Center at the International Crane Foundation, Baraboo, Wisconsin. From the entry in vigilance
  • On the night in question, the whole house was awakened by a dreadful cats'-concert.1976, Valentin Kataev, A Mosaic of Life Or, The Magic Horn of Oberon: Memoirs of a Russian Childhood, page 180. From the entry ill-bred
  • Bert Kerston was awakened by a steady tap on the ben window.1972, George Mackay Brown, Greenvoe, Polygon, published 2019, page 25. From the entry ben
  • The foehn and the sun must have awakened the spirits of spring way up in the heights.1971, WW Kibler, translating Gian Fontana, ‘The Mayor of Valdei’, in Bezzola (ed.), The Curly-Horned Cow, Peter Owen 1971, p. 71. From the entry foehn
  • Of all the Caribbees, Dominica most awakened my curiosity and excited my imagination.1967, Robert Bayley, The Sunny Caribbees: An Informal Guide to the West Indies. From the entry Caribbees
  • It seemed as if he had been gently awakened from a long sleep.1951, William Styron, chapter 5, in Lie Down in Darkness, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, page 214. From the entry foremost
  • Arise, and lift up your voices, that haply they that are fast asleep may be awakened.1935, Baháʼu'lláh, translated by Shoghi Effendi, Gleanings from the Writings of Baháʼu'lláh, Bahá'í Publishing Trust, section CVI. From the entry haply
  • There is a sleeping giant in education that is just beginning to awaken.1926 June, C.E. Mahaffey, “The Sleeping Giant in Education”, in The Educational Screen, volume 5, page 335. From the entry sleeping giant
  • Those words did but awaken within me when I was peaceless in the night.1919, Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman. From the entry peaceless
  • Awaken the womanhood of America to free the motherhood of the world!1913, Rachel Galvin, quoting Margaret Sanger, “Margaret Sanger's "Deeds of Terrible Virtue"”, in Humanities, volume 19, number 5, National…. From the entry womanhood
  • It of necessity will experience certain drawings towards the food; that is, certain emotions will be awakened.1904, William S. Turner, Story of My Life. From the entry desirive
  • Nightfall also awakened the neighborhood orchestra of crickets.2024 April 21, Borden Applegate, “Jacksonville Beach retiree: Memories of frogs, fireflies and a natural world now vanished”, in The…. From the entry orchestra
  • Nox Ap, the bee mother, awakens from her winter slumber along the realm of Xsan, the River of Mists.2024, Hetxw’ms Gyetxw Brett D. Huson, The Bee Mother. From the entry bee mother
  • They would awaken in the morning to find bookcases turned over, furniture strewn about, the entire living room in a mess.2006, Brad Steiger, Revelation: The Divine Fire, →ISBN, page 195. From the entry poltergeistic
  • Lately however, this disturbance in my spirit has been enough of a concern to awaken a more Berean attitude.1998 February 6, Dale Ogilvie, “May women teach in the church?”, in soc.religion.christian.bible-study (Usenet). From the entry Berean
  • Musclegirl Alex Rain (Sue Price) awakens on the East African plain with no memory, having been shot clean through the head.1997, Edmond Grant, Ken Fox, The Motion Picture Guide: 1997 Annual (The Films of 1996), page 265. From the entry musclegirl
  • I do not, however, wish to be awakened by Stevie Wonder and that is why God invented alarm clocks.1994, Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader, page 138. From the entry why God invented
  • I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.1970, Tora! Tora! Tora!, spoken by Isoroku Yamamoto. From the entry sleeping giant
  • Sri Ramakrishna awakened in this Original Beauty with easesome growth.1954, Swami Vivekananda, Awakened India, volume 59, page 578. From the entry easesome
  • With an infuriate scream the dead awakened.1929, Thomas Wolfe, chapter 20, in Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Modern Library, page 280. From the entry infuriate
  • I was awakened by a noise of eating.1922, E[dward] E[stlin] Cummings, “A Pilgrim’s Progress”, in The Enormous Room, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, →OCLC, page 48. From the entry bidon

Meaning of awaken

  1. verb To cause to become awake.
  2. verb To stop sleeping; awake.
  3. verb To bring into action (something previously dormant); to stimulate.

Full definition of awaken

Questions about awaken in a sentence

How do you use awaken in a sentence?
Awaken is used as a verb. For example: “Each morning he awakens with a smile on his face.”
What is a short sentence with awaken?
“Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!”
What does awaken mean?
Awaken means to cause to become awake.

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