How to Use awaken (someone or something) to (something) in a Sentence

awaken (someone or something) to (something)

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• So that night, the refugees spread out across the deck to find some rest, only to awaken to the sight of the Libyan coastline.
  — Kenneth R. Rosen, The New Republic, 26 Apr. 2022
• The potential gains are so large that even life-long shareholder-return devotees might awaken to the scale of the gain.
  — Steve Denning, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
• To walk a city led by your senses rather than a destination is to awaken to the city and, possibly, to yourself.
  — Stephanie Rosenbloom, New York Times, 19 June 2023
• The kids awaken to find explosive collars secured around their necks.
  — Simon Parkin, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2023
• Once the light has reached its full brightness level, the alarm clock will play one of five soothing sounds of your choosing to rouse you, or opt to awaken to FM radio instead.
  — Ellen McAlpine, CNN Underscored, 6 July 2020
• The film, which opened Christmas week, mercifully never shows a rape scene; the attacks are hinted at as the survivors awaken to blood and pain.
  — Lisa Rosen, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2022
• Few homicides occur at the reported hour, about 11 hours after nightfall and an hour and a half before sunrise, when much of the city is just beginning to awaken to a new day.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2022
• The nation is beginning to awaken to the greater need to honor the full diversity of people who helped pioneer our great nation.
  — Nick Givas, Fox News, 25 June 2020
• The conventions offer a chance for Biden to introduce himself and Harris, the first Black woman on a major-party ticket, and for Trump to hit the reset button as voters awaken to the fall campaign.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2020
• If the recent trend continues, someday, females could awaken to a world in which males are not yet reproductively mature, which could throw off their mating cycle.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2023
• Use this superior treatment mask after cleansing in the evening and awaken to visibly healthier skin.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Apr. 2022
• Oh will play Sofia Mori, a liberated feminist who, in the midst of a love triangle, begins to awaken to the complexity of her own Asian-American identity.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Nov. 2022
• Haitians were shocked to awaken to news Wednesday that President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his home overnight, amid political turmoil in the island nation.
  — Ryan Gillespie, orlandosentinel.com, 7 July 2021
• Value investing is a quest for tarnished gems, underappreciated stocks that the market will some day awaken to.
  — Larry Light, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2022
• Companies urgently need to awaken to this dramatic shift.
  — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
• Use this potent formula nightly and awaken to remarkable results.
  — Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Apr. 2022
• As the American people awaken to the geopolitical and economic threats posed by the Chinese Communist Party, that protection makes more strategic sense than ever.
  — Aharon Friedman, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024