AWAKEN in a Sentence

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Lay himself deserves much of the credit for awakening geophysicists to this wondrous terrain half way to the center of the earth.

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 Meanings and Examples of AWAKEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
awaken
 v.  stop sleeping
 v.  cause to become awake or conscious
Classic Sentence: (172 in 12 pages)
1  It needs live creatures like you to awaken it.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Edna sent her up into the house to awaken Robert.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XII
3  There was a perpetual smile in his eyes, which seldom failed to awaken a corresponding cheerfulness in any one who looked into them and listened to his good-humored voice.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXV
4  She would awaken him with a kiss.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXVIII
5  Hawkeye listened while he coolly adjusted his flint and reloaded his rifle; but the sounds, wanting the extraneous assistance of scene and sympathy, failed to awaken his slumbering emotions.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
6  Miss Ophelia had several times tried to awaken her maternal fears about Eva; but to no avail.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  Mammy heard the words, and flew to awaken the servants.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  The poor, worn-down, brutalized creatures, at first, could scarce comprehend this; but, when it was continued week after week, and month after month, it began to awaken long-silent chords in their benumbed hearts.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  She was obliged to step over the bodies of the sleepers, who were lying close together, and every moment she was filled with renewed dread lest she should awaken them.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM
10  She went as before to look for him, but he slept, and it was impossible to awaken him.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE RAVEN
11  She found him sleeping heavily, and all her efforts to awaken him were of no avail.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Context  Highlight   In THE RAVEN
12  Time was getting on, however, and Franz deemed it advisable to awaken Albert; but at the moment he prepared to proceed to his chamber, his friend entered the room in perfect costume for the day.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 34. The Colosseum.
13  The noise of the door did not awaken her, and Monte Cristo gazed at her with affectionate regret.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 90. The Meeting.
14  Each stroke of the oar seemed to awaken a new throng of ideas, which sprang up with the flying spray of the sea.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 113. The Past.
15  He made some remarks about a door which shut badly, and the noise of which might awaken the sick woman; then he entered Fantine's chamber, approached the bed and drew aside the curtains.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HA...
Example Sentence:
1  WHO said that court action needed to be handled cautiously, discipline and litigation could awaken public outrage, and advance both justice and health.
2  The same threat is repeated in manifold forms to awaken the careless.
3  Old people awaken early in the morning.
4  The aim of the cruise was to awaken an interest in and an understanding of foreign cultures.
5  Lay himself deserves much of the credit for awakening geophysicists to this wondrous terrain half way to the center of the earth.
6  Mass movements are often a factor in the awakening and renovation of stagnant societies.
7  Her feelings of affection are dormant but easily awakened.
8  He was awakened from his reverie by the teacher's question.
9  We awakened to find the others had gone.
10  They were awakened by the sound of gunfire.
11  Mr. Khodorkovsky recounted with a detached humor how, in the hours after a surprising clemency from his nemesis, President Vladimir V. Putin, he was awakened at 2 a.m.