How to Use reawaken in a Sentence

reawaken

verb
  • What needs to be reawakened within you first?
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
  • That was the sense that was reawakening.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
  • What is very important is that stress alone doesn’t reawaken dormant cells.
    — Shraddha Chakradhar, STAT, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Cancer that has been kept in check by the immune system can sometimes reawaken.
    — James Welsh, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2014
  • This is your call to reawaken your curiosity and let your beliefs evolve with you.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The priest gave him a three-month series of activities to reawaken him.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • First lured into the world of easy money, his sense of judgment and morals reawaken when people start to get hurt.
    — Annika Pham, Variety, 26 Jan. 2024
  • His voice is part of a growing collective memory reawakened by the sound of blasts and sirens.
    — Amir Daftari, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025
  • The journey to reawaken the Force won’t be straightforward.
    — Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The offensive has reawakened a civil war that had been largely dormant for years.
    — Eyad Kourdi, CNN, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Hawkins made a long 3 that reawakened the UConn fans and then the teams traded baskets.
    — Ralph D. Russo, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023
  • The virus can lie dormant in our nerves for decades after a bout of chickenpox, only to be reawakened by stress.
    — Cassie Shortsleeve, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Apr. 2026
  • But there have also been moments that reawakened his inner child, who is, of course, a diehard ‘Sawx’ fan.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Hartford Courant, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Yes, there is a great theater audience that needs to be reawakened in Cincinnati.
    — David Lyman, The Enquirer, 1 June 2023
  • The mission isn’t officially dead yet, but hopes are dimming that the rover will reawaken.
    — Korey Haynes, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2019
  • This reawakens your joy, passion and self-confidence, making your dating life feel fun again.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Likewise, a warm spell during the winter months could cause the weeds to reawaken and bloom, Ecoturf said.
    — Lauren Penington, The Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The terror and trauma of that brutal campaign has been reawakened in recent weeks in parts of Iraq.
    — Khalid Razak, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2024
  • Aries season reawakens your public persona.
    — Usa Today, USA Today, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Maybe that was this man’s role in your life, to reawaken you to yourself, not necessarily to be your partner.
    — Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 11 June 2024
  • For those who found their interest piqued while sourdough pandemic baking, this book will help reawaken that fire.
    — Hannah Selinger, Outside Online, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Ramaphosa’s event was designed to reawaken some of the excitement of the party’s earlier era.
    — John Eligon Prentice Onayemi Anna Diamond Devin Murphy, New York Times, 21 May 2024
  • When spring arrives, the ice sublimates and summertime winds reawaken the movement of the sand.
    — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • Prepare to emerge cleansed, reawakened, and ready for Sagittarius season’s fire.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Staff hung around until the deer reawakened and stumbled away, perhaps into Pando.
    — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Those robots are slowly reawakening and its up to the players to discover who is awakening them and why.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • His pride in having helped reawaken his country’s interest in books and Ukrainian culture is mixed with guilt.
    — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Jan. 2025
  • If the offensive falls short, that will reawaken doubts in the West and encourage Putin to keep fighting.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
  • The report comes out at a time when a raft of soft economic data reawakened traders’ fears of an approaching recession.
    — Hakyung Kim, CNBC, 1 Aug. 2024
  • This was about something as simple yet profound as national pride, something recently reawakened in many of them.
    — Greg Cote updated March 17, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2026

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