Sentence examples for woken from inspiring English sources

I was woken by bleats; a herd of goats had descended on the camp.

You'll be woken in the morning by a tinkling bell as tea or coffee is delivered to your tent.

I knew from experience that the best bit was yet to come – being woken by the morning light and watching the sun rise in one of the wildest places in the world.

Having had what he plainly regarded as a successful day delivering his autumn statement the other week, George Osborne sounded as though he had woken up with a hangover when he lost his cool on the Today programme and complained bitterly about the BBC's coverage.

Which was just as well because I was woken at dawn each day by a horn blast nearby.

I was woken at 4.30am by deafening cuckoos and the tractor rush hour, which starts early in these parts.

"It's a fundamental threat to freedom of expression and people haven't yet woken up to what's going on," she said.

People have woken up to the fact that what happens elsewhere in Europe has a direct impact on their lives; Brussels is not just some technocratic machine which produces decisions best for all; what we need is a European party system, so that different options for Europe's future can be debated across the continent.

Politically, a Tobin tax has become more attractive as governments have woken up to public anger at the banks deemed responsible for the crisis, and to the budgetary cost of clearing up the mess.

WAKIE – SOCIAL ALARM CLOCK iOS/Android - FREE You set an alarm and are woken up by a call from a real person: another Wakie user.

When he arrived, he had that look he sometimes had, like he'd woken up out of a bad dream – eyes that were open and yet slightly lost.