How to Use awakening in a Sentence

awakening

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  • Speaking for myself, there's this huge awakening that happens.
    — Janine Rubenstein, People.com, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Though microscopic relative to what the rich pay, call the taxes an awakening of sorts.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • The awakening spread to the rest of the province and then to elsewhere in Iraq.
    — Carter Malkasian, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2017
  • One thing that happened during the awakening of the late '60s and '70s was the breakup of the family.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 16 July 2023
  • Spring is the perfect time for an awakening of the senses.
    — Wendy Altschuler, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • In much of the world, spring is a time of renewal and awakening from the dark winter months.
    — Chef Lilla Bernal, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Mar. 2023
  • As the sun blazes into fire sign Aries, the equinox brings a special sort of spring awakening for you.
    — The Astrotwins, ELLE, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The renaissance has come largely thanks to a spring awakening of the Beavers’ bats.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 8 May 2023
  • The dunk was the lasting image of a night that became my awakening to Lillard.
    — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Ken’s awakening From the start of the film, Ken smarts at Barbie’s small rejections.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 21 July 2023
  • The conflict was a strain and left grief, but it is also stitched into this awakening.
    — Timothy O'Grady, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 July 2024
  • In El Eco, sequestered tradition and an awakening to the wider world are both alive.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Feb. 2023
  • And that maybe the two hadn’t bonded strongly enough to deter that awakening.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
  • Your anger and resentment may stem from your awakening to this fact.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 22 June 2024
  • Next to the depth of Lacey’s struggle, or Dee Dee’s awakening, the others seem more like boilerplate.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2023
  • But this is not merely a sartorial awakening in the iHeart of eMan.
    — Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 18 July 2024
  • Predator had the effect of an awakening, as if a dormant part of myself, asleep in an unswept corner, had been made to shoot to its feet, fangs bared.
    — Wyatt Mason, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
  • For me, that awakening of the characters is just an awareness of a dissolving of their boundaries, if that doesn’t sound too strange.
    — Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • And for a full two years prior to that, I had been flung into a spiritual awakening.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Oh, and the ice bath helped solidify that fact — a chilly awakening after the sauna, steam bath and relaxation yurt.
    — Marlise Kast-Myers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024
  • The boundaries between the human and the nonhuman are one of the places in which their political awakening takes place.
    — Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
  • The stories of her trips are overwrought in the way that such tales about mid-life spiritual awakenings sometimes can be.
    — Trish Deitch, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
  • The boys, in their adolescent confusion and awakening, waver between the impulse to save and the impulse to hurt.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
  • There are some songs that are so heavy — about my awakening, my respect, and my enlightening.
    — Vulture, 12 May 2023
  • Whole books have been written about another great spiritual awakening, harvest time and the end of the age, the kingdom of God, the antichrist, and the return of the Lord, etc.
    — The Rev. Mike Taylor, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 16 Apr. 2021
  • However, the mainstream has a tendency to listen to those on the wrong side, who then have an awakening, and then go on a redemption tour.
    — Hessie Jones, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
  • One of Osmond's sons also gave her a heartfelt awakening.
    — Vanessa Etienne, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2023
  • So one of the easiest ways to fix this middle of the night problem is to regularize your morning awakening and go to bed later.
    — Rocio Fabbro, Quartz, 23 July 2024
  • The awakening that makes her character rebel does not arise from any special access or insight.
    — Talya Zax, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Check out our selects below and get inspired for your living space's spring awakening.
    — Wendy Vazquez, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Jan. 2023

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