Sentence examples for waken from inspiring English sources
verb
To awake or rouse from sleep; to stir.
They are unlikely to waken from their insular dreams until the cracking of the Portuguese territories opens their actual frontiers to infiltration.
The perpetrator of this outrage, designed to "waken the masses", regretted only that it had not claimed more victims.
By fostering intolerance, such words and deeds play right into the hands of our enemies and waken our national character".
I found myself trying while reading much of the book, to waken Hollinghurst from this diligent slumber by muttering into his ear one of Wyndham Lewis's revolutionary modernist maxims, designed to stir England up in the nineteen-teens: "Kill John Bull with Art".
But it is hard to regard William Faulkner in quite the same way after you read about "locking her forever in that cloistral dream from which that sex who alone must waken her must by the same token be the one most powerless to deliver her".
Her footsteps entered, very lightly, as if not to waken anyone sleeping in the house.
In the words of an Arab saying, "Fitna sleeps; God's curse upon him who wakens it".The end of the beginningSyria's tragedy, and to a lesser extent the problems caused by the transition elsewhere, have other perverse effects.
A greener Bush Traffic decongestant Reprints Related items China: The not-so-great powerFeb 13th 2003 China's economy: Is the wakening giant a monster?Feb 13th 2003 China and the Philippines: When you can't transplant plantFeb 13th 2003The world has been here before.
That might seem like an argument for relocating to China, to be close to his customers.Related items China's economy: Is the wakening giant a monster?Feb 13th 2003 China: Eating your lunch?Feb 13th 2003 Philippine banks: False economyFeb 13th 2003And indeed PSi is looking into setting up a factory in China, at a customer's behest.
It starts with a ten-year-old Jiro Horikoshi imagining flying above his provincial home before being wakened by bombs from a hulking aerial warship.
USUALLY a pretty sleepy place, Zambia's capital was rudely wakened on February 28th by a string of explosions that severed the capital's water supply and damaged its power lines.
