Sentence examples for wake with a start from inspiring English sources

For a long time after, "He would dream about it and wake with a start in the night," Silvia recalled.

He'll wake with a start from this dream or auditory nightmare and won't be able to get back to sleep for the rest of the night.

But some of the girls now sleep with their parents, or wake with a start when neighborhood boys light firecrackers at night.

I'm the sort of sleeper that conks out the minute my head hits the pillow, no matter what the pillow is made of, or what it's covered in, and I wake with a start at 4 a.m. to gnaw on existential questions.

You wake with a start to find your face pressed against the ceiling.

Wake with a start as bullets whistle death hymns into your flesh.

Suddenly, the child woke with a start.

I was woken with a start by something moving on the bed.

She stopped waking with a start when she saw my silhouette.

I opened the garage door from the inside, and the man woke with a start.

Sometimes he woke with a start to the shattering loop of sirens, blue and red spangled on the bedroom wall.