Awaken

//əˈweɪkən//

"Awaken" in a Sentence (20 examples)

This book will awaken your imagination.

Those who look outward dream, but those who look inward awaken.

If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.

May I awaken within the dream and grasp the fact that I am dreaming so that all dream-like beings may likewise awaken from the nightmare of illusory suffering and confusion.

The sleeping man can be awoken, but who can awaken the waking one?

The queen was more frightened than words can describe, and could neither speak a word nor move from the place so as to awaken the King or the sailors.

The cock and the other birds awaken me in the morning.

Daphnis, perceiving it, laid down his pipe and while he gazed on her charms, he thus sighed to himself: "What eyes are those which are now closed in sleep! What a mouth is that which breathes so sweetly! Neither apples nor wild-flowers have so sweet a scent! Ah! But I fear to kiss it! Her lips sting me to the heart, and like new honey drive me mad! Besides, a kiss would awaken her!"

Mary was awaken by the cries of her child.

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible.

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Be careful how you touch her, she'll awaken / As sleep's the only freedom all that she knows / And when you walk into her eyes, you won't believe / The way she's always paying for a debt she never owes

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.

Awaken your entrepreneurial spirit!

We hope to awaken your interest in our programme.

On the other hand, the self-cleaning smokebox belongs to the latter-day period of the L.M.S.R., when the visiting U.S.A. 2-8-0s of the war had awakened an interest in such things.

I'll miss the sea. But a person needs new experiences. They draw something deep inside, allowing him to grow. Without change, something sleeps inside us and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

[This ant] I ſuffered to lye above an hour in the Spirit; and after I had taken it out, and put its body and legs into a natural poſture, remained moveleſs about an hour; but then , upon a ſudden, as if it had been awaken out of a drunken ſleep, it ſuddenly reviv'd and ran away...

I suddenly awoke to the possibilities of the new invention.

[S]he pointedly remarked that they had just moved to the city a month previous, that they were dissatisfied, and would return to Hoosierdom in June. I was completely taken in, and departed without making the assessment. However, when whole flatsful began to make similar explanations under similar circumstances, I awoke to the fact that I had been bluffed.

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