How to Use awakening in a Sentence

awakening

noun
  • Your anger and resentment may stem from your awakening to this fact.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 22 June 2024
  • My dear friend has had a bit of a spiritual awakening over the past year or so.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 13 June 2026
  • The awakening spread to the rest of the province and then to elsewhere in Iraq.
    — Carter Malkasian, Foreign Affairs, 24 June 2017
  • 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 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
  • And that maybe the two hadn’t bonded strongly enough to deter that awakening.
    — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
  • This is an awakening that shifts your perspective.
    — Lisa Stardust, Vogue, 23 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Such an awakening, the team warn, could trigger new metastatic tumors.
    — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 July 2025
  • Of course, the awakening is not universal.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2026
  • There all these think piece about Chessy being a lesbian awakening for a lot of women.
    — Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • This is your awakening year, and the miracles will overflow.
    — Tatianna Tarot, Refinery29, 2 Dec. 2025
  • There are some songs that are so heavy — about my awakening, my respect, and my enlightening.
    — Vulture, 12 May 2023
  • The renaissance has come largely thanks to a spring awakening of the Beavers’ bats.
    — Joe Freeman, oregonlive, 8 May 2023
  • In days past, there have been rare, but disturbing, reports of awakenings, as well as deaths that stretched out over many days.
    — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
  • For club kids, having a spiritual awakening on the dance floor is a rite of passage.
    — Puja Patel, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2025
  • The dunk was the lasting image of a night that became my awakening to Lillard.
    — Bill Oram, oregonlive, 20 Dec. 2022
  • The awakening that makes her character rebel does not arise from any special access or insight.
    — Talya Zax, The New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Bae’s artistic awakening began far from her initial path in finance.
    — Skylar Mitchell, Essence, 10 Dec. 2025
  • What could be better than ending April with a picture book about nature awakening in spring?
    — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Rankin believed that without a widespread moral awakening, the prospect was slim that slavery could be abolished.
    — TIME, 2 Dec. 2024
  • She was born in the 70s, and her own feminist awakening happened with her first job out of college.
    — Fiction Non Fiction, Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026
  • These aren't signs of AI awakening or rebellion.
    — ArsTechnica, 13 Aug. 2025
  • And the 12-year-old-label happens to be a great starting point on your journey of awakening.
    — Brad Japhe, Forbes.com, 29 Mar. 2025
  • This was quite an awakening as for most of my life I am defined as being part of a minority class.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2025
  • If Season 1 is the awakening, the aim is for this to be the first of several new chapters.
    — Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 24 Mar. 2026
  • And for a full two years prior to that, I had been flung into a spiritual awakening.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 14 Oct. 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
  • My wish is this column ignites a nationwide awakening.
    — Joe Kinsey Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026
  • More importantly was also that season one is about an awakening with these young women.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 9 Apr. 2026

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