How to Use reawaken in a Sentence

reawaken

verb
  • Hawkins made a long 3 that reawakened the UConn fans and then the teams traded baskets.
    Ralph D. Russo, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023
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    Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 10 July 2023
  • 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
  • The priest gave him a three-month series of activities to reawaken him.
    Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Jonah was swallowed by the whale and spit forth, reborn, reawakened.
    Carl Hoffman, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • Cancer that has been kept in check by the immune system can sometimes reawaken.
    James Welsh, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2014
  • 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
  • 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
  • What is very important is that stress alone doesn’t reawaken dormant cells.
    Shraddha Chakradhar, STAT, 2 Dec. 2020
  • 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
  • Mackay said the facility will reawaken a point of pride for Phoenix – its role as a food-production center for the rest of the country.
    Megan Taros, The Arizona Republic, 4 Sep. 2020
  • Staff hung around until the deer reawakened and stumbled away, perhaps into Pando.
    Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The first few days have been about understanding players’ fitness levels via testing and reawakening their bodies to the rhythms of the game.
    Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 16 Jan. 2024
  • Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Her enigmatic employer and his visionary daughter have built a lush new life for the global elite, one that reawakens the chef to the pleasures of taste, touch, and her own body.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 17 June 2024
  • And those explosions of live drumming and dancing reawaken a stage that the Omicron surge had kept dark and quiet since late December.
    New York Times, 16 Feb. 2022
  • As shells rain down on Flanders, and ghosts move among those yet living, Laura’s and Freddie’s deepest traumas are reawakened.
    Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 15 Dec. 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
  • For Russians, this was a familiar story, reawakening the Cold War mindset of us versus them.
    Foreign Affairs, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Common poorwills may enter this state for a few hours, days or even weeks – the longest stretch recorded is 85 days – and reawaken when temperatures rise again in spring.
    Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Even though the Soviet Union collapsed, the threat posed by Vladimir Putin has reawakened everyone’s anxiety.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 28 July 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
  • Those feelings were reawakened during the 1990s, when many Serbs believed they were unfairly portrayed as the villains of a complex civil war.
    Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 3 May 2023
  • The idea is that most memories dim because they are transferred over time from the hippocampus, where they are first formed, to the prefrontal cortex, but that smell can reawaken these memories.
    Abigail Tucker, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Sep. 2022
  • With the current incarnation of the Avatar yet to emerge, the world has loses hope until Aang (Gordon Cormier), a young airbender, reawakens to take his rightful place.
    Selome Hailu, Variety, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Certain viruses can insert versions of their genes into the genomes of human or mouse cells, and these viral sequences sometimes reawaken in cells that are in a pluripotent state.
    Bykai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 21 Feb. 2023
  • This mysterious bottle contains one of the best shampoos for women wanting to reawaken their hair.
    Grooming Playbook, The Salt Lake Tribune, 17 May 2022
  • Anyone reading the recent books on prison abolition will be reawakened to the frequent brutality, grotesque ironies, and ingrained indifference of our carceral system.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024

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