Sentence examples for came awake from inspiring English sources
He wouldn't let on that he heard her and wouldn't let on when he came awake.
I dozed off but came awake with a start: the nurse was now in motion, calling out to others.
Another one starts, "Pelham came awake one night to find a naked man standing over his bed, growling".
The conference slowly came awake, remembered how much they adored him, and gave him another standing ovation.
The engine came awake with a rumble, and the Firebird went scrabbling out of the lot and back onto the frontage road.
I came awake in the unfamiliar room I didn't know how much later, and, if this makes sense, it wasn't the pain in my shoulder that woke me but its departure.
"The crowd have come awake!" trills the commentator.
In a wasted time, it's only when I sleep that all my senses come awake.
This can be disconcerting at first – I now have a hundred pictures of my dog where the still suddenly comes awake as she turns to look at me.
Her sojourn there, begun in 2001, is recounted in a second memoir, "Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language," published in 2009.
