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Example sentences for "wakening"

Lexicographically close words:
wakeful; wakefulness; waken; wakened; wakeneth; wakens; waker; wakes; wakest; waketh
  1. It is the Divine Spirit wakening the human heart to lyric language.

  2. There are wakening chords in the tune--and especially the chorus--when the counterpoint is well vocalized; and the effect is more pronounced the greater the symphony of voices.

  3. The bitter little dialogue, at any rate, had the good effect of wakening Audrey to the practical aspects of her problem.

  4. At last, after many failures, they had succeeded in wakening Vincent to a sense of distant kinship with the life of boys and maidens.

  5. The word signifies "awakening," and so is a most fitting name for a tree whose beautiful flowers, appearing in Palestine in January, show the wakening up of Creation.

  6. It was like the wakening of a prisoner in his cell when the warder beats at the door and the dream of glory is gone and the prison walls close round him again.

  7. It was now Aunt Margret's turn to make a noise, and this she did by wakening baby in rising suddenly, and protesting that Oscar ought to be turned out of the room and Thora left to rest.

  8. His eyes glowed with the dull fire of wakening excitement; his steps were quick, and yet cautious, every movement in his advance was one of listening and watchful expectancy.

  9. Now it was wakening under the first magic touch of spring.

  10. And at the wakening of your first sleep, You shall have a hot drink made; And at the wakening of your next sleep Your sorrows will have a slake.

  11. We can carry him up-stairs without wakening him.

  12. You have ended by wakening Tod;" which remark terminated the conversation somewhat abruptly.

  13. Eleanor, suddenly wakening up to the meaning of the chatter.

  14. Wayland took hold of both bridles and led down, the old man wakening as from a stupor.

  15. Both Beatrice and Ben could sense the new wakening and revival in the still depths about them.

  16. She heard them rustling in the spruce boughs; and far in the forest she discerned the first whine of the wakening wind.

  17. Like a dream of beauty in the night, That came to tell a fair and welcome tale, Then left the wakening dreamer to bewail The dead delight.

  18. This was the second time of wakening for Ruby that night, since he lay down to rest.

  19. The next night It came again, with a great wakening light, And showed the names whom love of God had blessed: And, lo!

  20. The world outside was full of warring winds and plashing rains, into which the yokels went at last reluctantly, and when they were gone I fell asleep, wakening once only for a moment when my wet clothes were being taken from the room.

  21. He was roused by the wakening twitter of birds and in the cold water of a creek that ran near he bathed his face and hands.

  22. So it happened that a little after midnight he rose without making a sound, and by the light of a candle wrote a note for Nada, saying he had business at the post that day, and without wakening them had made an early start.

  23. I hear the proud swell of the growing waters; I hear the whispering of the wakening winds; but reason lays her trident on the cresting waves, and all again is hushed.

  24. Many shriveled fragments marked the old blossoms on the long stems, but the crowns of each still put out new buds, and every dusk saw the wakening of fresh blossoms heedless of their dead sisters below.

  25. There mingles with the Orient beams A wakening psalm of tinkling bell: "God brings the day, and all is well.

  26. He began the day in splendid spirits, begotten of good sleep and good health; but his wife saw the lightness of heart, the bustling activity of body, sink into apathy and inertia as remembrance overtook his wakening hour.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wakening" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.