How To Use Waking up In A Sentence

  • He was afraid of waking up in the morning and finding that Jessie was dead.
  • Waking up to that news must certainly make a hangover feel better. The Sun
  • He wrote most of the songs on the album, once waking up at 6 a. m. with inspiration for lyrics.
  • My best moment was waking up on the day of the summer solstice last year. Times, Sunday Times
  • After waking up with a sore throat, slight fever, and aches all over, I'm now realizing it's a good day to be sick.
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  • My mother's from Colombia, so I grew up waking up on Saturday mornings with my mom blaring cumbia merengue music, cleaning the house and skipping around.
  • My pet peeve for the day is waking up in the middle of the night, curled in a warm hollow under the blankets, relaxed and thinking dozily about blogs and mailing lists… and then the harsh bleep of my alarm ricocheting through the dark.
  • And in the afternoon we went for a row on the river, pulling easily up the anabranch and floating down with the stream under the shade of the river timber -- instead of going to sleep and waking up helpless and soaked in perspiration, to find the women with headaches, as many do on Children of the Bush
  • Although...the incoherence could be a side effect of my continued insomnia--I've been either lying awake until 4, or waking up at 2 for a few hours, almost every other night, even though I ran out of my exciting cough medicine last week. Ainmosni.
  • Waking up to that news must certainly make a hangover feel better. The Sun
  • The United States is waking up from a serious malady.
  • Waking up early that day in order to leave extra early and have time to stop at Starbucks for breakfast, Madison and I both showered and then dressed in matching velour sweats, mine in pink and hers in blue.
  • After a shower I got so wrapped up in playing with my bass fx dsp that I forgot to eat dinner and went to bed too late. fri: Had a hard time waking up this morning. Italianbeef Diary Entry
  • They were just great camping trips in beautiful Yorkshire countryside, waking up to the bleating of sheep and doves cooing. Times, Sunday Times
  • Waking up and stretching everything that happened last night came back to her and she shook in off and went to the garage to get her clothes out of her trunk.
  • South Africans are waking up to the reality of child rape and sexual abuse.
  • There's nothing like waking up to bright clear skies with spectacular views of the Lhotse and Amu Dablam ranges – and a rubbish dump.
  • I go to The White Privilege Conference because I love to be with lots of people who are doing similar work - social justice programs and projects that have the purpose of waking up to the reality of and healing from the "isms" - mainly racism. Abby L. Ferber: White People Confronting Racism
  • Waking up in a bed, in a room, was strangely silent; no birds, no chickarees, no creek rushing by.
  • He kept waking up unhappy while my husband and I were snuggled under the duvet. Times, Sunday Times
  • Governments are finally waking up to the fact that the environment should be cleaned up.
  • Each year when I leave Glebe Cottage for Chelsea, our "hot" borders are only just showing signs of waking up, with large clumps of Euphorbia palustris and their brilliant, lime-green tufts stealing centre stage. Gardens: Oriental poppies
  • I ended up sleeping for about four hours - waking up at about 6.45 pm - missing not only my fringe show, but evensong as well.
  • She recalled waking up after sleeping amid the fumes. The Sun
  • I remember waking up one cold and frosty Christmas morning, and after drawing back the blackout curtains the light shone on to the pale green stippled walls of my bedroom, and I saw my stocking hanging on the corner of the fireplace (no fire).
  • But whatever the motive, international business is at least waking up to the fact that a social conscience can be good for business.
  • I felt a sharp pain in my head and the next thing I knew was waking up in hospital.
  • After waking up, her speech was garbled and she was confused.
  • Morvern Callar begins with a young woman waking up to find her lover dead, sprawled on the kitchen floor.
  • Other than a ‘piet-my-vrou ‘(red chested cuckoo) waking up at 5 this morning to shout, before it even got light, and my son's awakening at 5: 30 on a SUNDAY morning to ask if he could watch TV, it's been a good start to the week.’
  • It had been quite another waking up starkers in the gray morning light. Kiss & Break Up
  • Though she was happy with the love and adulation that came with fame, she hated waking up early in the morning.
  • The impact was powerful enough to shake buildings in central Tokyo, waking up many residents, in a reminder of how prone the Japanese capital is to earthquakes.
  • He rubbed his eyes and yawned as though waking up after a long sleep.
  • I'm a restless sleeper, so I ended up waking up a lot.
  • Waking up and realising it is Monday was the second biggest letdown. The Sun
  • I guess Camelot is over .... thank God some people are finally waking up to this lunacy. Poll: Obama approval rating dips under 60 percent
  • Businesses are waking up to the need for this high level of protection, but are still being bombarded by virals.
  • They had picked the one that was farthest from the beds in efforts to avoid waking up the girls.
  • Go Packers! leehoward Great football today - Birmingham v Villa just kicked off, later it's Cardiff v Newcastle and then Fulham v Everton, we're showing them all! leehoward Fulham v Everton - TeleText johncz RT @FiOSTV RedZone Widget is live on your FiOS TV (launch it from the Widget Bazaar) - Now you're ready for some football! jensroeben jark: Waking up at 3am to watch some opening day football! Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • C'mon, just how pathetic is this unionist response to Scotland finally waking up and asserting herself? Calman- "imaginative" and "bold"?
  • Selina began her school day the same way she always had, waking up before the aureate dawn revealed itself to watch the most fantastic thing she'd ever seen: the sun rise.
  • There should be abetter way to start a day than waking up every morning.
  • In his immediate postoperative state, in what was neither a dream nor fantasy, but more akin to a prolonged series of hypnopompic hallucinations during a long period of waking up, this 50-plus - year-old man went through vivid images of lying on a concrete slab, while someone opened his heart and collected the blood in large pails and buckets at the side of the table. Dr. Leo Rangell: Music in the Head: Living at the Brain-Mind Border; Part 1
  • About a year ago my body got into the annoying habit of waking up around 5am.
  • Falling asleep stuffed, waking up hungry at midnight, standing over the toilet with Jell-O legs, hoping the forecast for rain is wrong, and savoring morning comforts like an email from home and the first sip of coffee, my commiserative teammate and I wake ourselves up for another race day. Ben King Diary: Inside the Team RadioShack bus – still a novelty
  • All over the country, and in fact all over the world, people are waking up to the horrors being perpetrated by the tyrants of power and authority.
  • You were waking up each morning not knowing what was going to hit you. Times, Sunday Times
  • Waking up from its slumber in cool waters, it sluggishly walks around, often opening its mouth to catch the banana thrown by the woman walking along with her.
  • Lastly everytime there is a dispute where government have to step up they announce they are organising a panel to investigate however we never hear anything conclusive from them again this is just a stalling tactic so i think we are past that, they need to sit up and start changing things as it looks like more and more ppl are waking up to the fact that they are serving noone other than themselves. yebo gogo i like toy toy very much it our national sport - lets bring Zuma and it's un educated gang to the gound - we are tired of him - go go go we want new leader maybe Julias Malema he is give us just what we want News24 Top Stories
  • I've had no periods of black depression about it, no waking up in cold sweats.
  • ‘Where the divil are the folk gone?’ said Latimer, waking up to the fact of their absence, and looking round. Wessex Tales
  • There's nothing like waking up to bright clear skies with spectacular views of the Lhotse and Amu Dablam ranges – and a rubbish dump.
  • Waking up with them was the most joyful experience, like giving birth. Times, Sunday Times
  • At some point Ezra becomes obsessed with the calendar and celebrates important dates, such as the first time he set eyes on a Cardigan Welsh corgi, or the first of the month, by waking up at dawn and running around the house yelling "It's the first day of May! Chantal Sicile-Kira: Following Ezra: Lessons on Raising a Child with Autism
  • I have made it a primary goal to integrate my work with my passionate interests, mostly in order to avoid the mid-life crisis of waking up to a soul-deadening modern job.
  • Why do our legs cramp up as we're waking up?
  • It is almost always given by injecting a drug, which acts so rapidly that you are barely aware that anything is happening before waking up in the recovery ward, or back in bed.
  • Waking up to find a hung-over friend of a relative amongst the presents will certainly help that year stand out.
  • Imagine groggily waking up in a strange house, surrounded by unfamiliar faces, with not a single memory of the past ten hours.
  • They were just great camping trips in beautiful Yorkshire countryside, waking up to the bleating of sheep and doves cooing. Times, Sunday Times
  • My best moment was waking up on the day of the summer solstice last year. Times, Sunday Times
  • 'Where the divil are the folk gone?' said Latimer, waking up to the fact of their absence, and looking round. Wessex Tales
  • Kara had a fitful night sleep before waking up early.
  • The next thing she recalls is waking up surrounded by ghostly figures. Times, Sunday Times
  • In it, there is a young man waking up in the morning after a nite of excess and liquor.
  • He is just now waking up in Manitoba in the house mistakable in every detail for the sturdy home from which he is now - and ever shall be - missing.
  • The amount of rest I got though is questionable as I kept waking up at frequent intervals during the night.
  • By now, he was used to waking up in the middle of the night; attire mussed and nightcap askew, and scurrying to open the door for His Grace's wide circle of friends.
  • Communities of all sizes are waking up and relearning old lessons: That many residents want the option of walking or biking to get from A to B.
  • Like those before him, Horowitz pooh-poohs the idea of a recalcitrant left waking up to the error of its anti-war protesting ways.
  • She recalls waking up from the anaesthetic eager to see her new face. The Sun
  • My cat is a love whore, using vertical clawing and pitiful yowling to get attention when we're going to bed or waking up.
  • Waking up to that penetrating ice-blue gaze was enough to throw anyone off balance for the rest of the day.
  • He didn't allow the man to have his prerequisite two cups of coffee after waking up.
  • There are methods of assisting the victim in waking up and focussing attention such as slapping the victim, striking the sole of the foot, or yelling.
  • A technique that LaBerge calls mnemonic induction of lucid dreams, or MILD, involves waking up an hour earlier than usual in the morning, recalling your last dream, and going asleep again while thinking, "The next time I'm dreaming, I want to remember I'm dreaming. Scientific American
  • Waking up and walking into other room vs. waking up and schlepping to work: the former is preferable.
  • Of waking up to hear that your fate, the future of your family and your home, has been changed again by someone in a far off place.
  • Either you have not gone bed to yet, and you need something to assuage your fevered brow, or you are waking up and you need something to assuage your fevered brow.
  • I would keep waking up, I couldn't sleep for more than an hour without snapping awake, just as unrested as I was before.
  • I'm a fan of dill, but the idea of wasabi is really waking up my tastebuds! Recipe for Shrimp and Wasabi (or Dijon) Deviled Eggs and a Collection of Deviled Egg Ideas
  • And curiously, it's the cold which helps the process of waking up for Spring.
  • There's nothing I enjoy more than planting some turnips, going to sleep and waking up in the morning to turnip sprouts.
  • But waking up earlier than you planned every morning — and feeling unrefreshed — can be signs that you're down. The Sun
  • The rising independant voter registration numbers second that, and give me hope for some Americans waking up to the two party dictatorship. bri fla Former AG Ashcroft can be sued for terror probe arrest, appeals
  • After years of denial and obfuscation, it appears that the car industry is at last waking up to the scale of the problem. Times, Sunday Times
  • I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up.
  • He is afraid of waking up late, so he always has an alarm on his bedside table.
  • It's a strange thing, waking up single again after such a long time. Times, Sunday Times
  • The next thing she recalls is waking up surrounded by ghostly figures. Times, Sunday Times
  • Suffice to say waking up in your own puke loses it's appeal after the sixth or seventh time.
  • I was upset with my mother for reminding me of this on a night that I wanted to spend in thrall to the optimism of Christmas - fear not, for behold: I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people - and to the sweet prospect of waking up to tiny pajamaed children filled with glee. Archive 2009-01-04
  • I love waking up and seeing text messages on my phone.
  • Living salubriously means eating at least 3 healthy meals a day, falling asleep at the same time every day, and waking up without an alarm; getting at least 30 minutes of exercise (even walking) and being out and about at least 2 hours a day to get sun.
  • People are waking up finally to the reality that the game has changed.
  • Knitting sockets for street-lamps, waking up your co-citizens, or printing you "tete" (head) on the floor out of the metro to sell records or ray ban glasses …. ah! fascinating - respect for the brand/checked. prescription circle short-circuited and the brand needs a promotion to an icon. Tech IT Easy
  • I love waking up and seeing text messages on my phone.
  • It was the wonderful, free feeling of roaming where they liked, of waking up each day to a different view.
  • Burnley Crown Court heard Mr Cook, who works in computers, suffered a break to his retina and feared waking up blinded.
  • She recorded the new album in a week, waking up one morning and deciding that was what she wanted. Times, Sunday Times
  • She gazed into his troubled face, dark hair falling across green eyes, sunlight dusking his pale skin, like fate waking up to morning air.
  • Imagine waking up and being offered homemade waffles, light and crispy, with butter and syrup.
  • Once at University Andrew kicked rugby into touch because he was fed up of waking up with a thick head, took up rowing - and the rest is history.
  • The last thing he remembered was a loud clank against his head… and then waking up in the backseat of a dingy car.
  • This doesn't stop me waking up early and running round tidying the flat, polishing and cleaning.
  • The federal government is waking up to what has become a growing nightmare in many parts of the country — a bed bug outbreak.
  • But now, waking up from The Obama Show is like being on "Let's Make a Deal" and trading in your winning prize hidden under box number 1 for the "zonk" behind curtain number 2. American Thinker
  • {{skwirrlgrrl}} between leeving pleh werk at 2AM and waking up at 8AM for teh workers who spent teh whole day beeting up teh bafroom ai was a zombie luker on fridegg! Uhm… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • However, just the thought of waking up, to find some Xbox-ing berk on the next pillow, asking if he can use the phone to tell his mum where he is, is surely enough to make the most voracious cougar want to retire quietly to the next room and hang herself with her support tights. Good luck to Caroline Flack. She'll need it | Barbara Ellen
  • For the last two weeks I've been waking up with a dull pain in my groin.
  • The sounds are of a rural backwater waking up: crowing, barking, scratching, whining.
  • She remembered waking up with heavy pounding on the door.
  • He rubbed his eyes and yawned as though waking up after a long sleep.
  • We see Penelope waking up alone in a bed filled with discarded gauntlets, greaves and breastplates.
  • I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up.
  • My best moment was waking up on the day of the summer solstice last year. Times, Sunday Times
  • So from waking up and starting the day off with foul expletives, my mood has changed to one of relative happiness.
  • My best moment was waking up on the day of the summer solstice last year. Times, Sunday Times
  • Those plans have moved further down his list of priorities since the world began waking up to the band.
  • At this time, most plants are just waking up from their winter slumber and will relish a little trim. Times, Sunday Times
  • Waking up to find a hung-over friend of a relative amongst the presents will certainly help that year stand out.
  • My best moment was waking up on the day of the summer solstice last year. Times, Sunday Times
  • I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up.
  • You transmute your shadow into wisdom by waking up and letting go of doubt, sloth, and stupor. C. Clinton Sidle: The Five Wisdoms Of The Mandala
  • Thanks to the environmentalists, businesses are slowly waking up to green issues.
  • By the end of the race you can do certain things like putting in or taking out a reef in the sail almost without waking up. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was gradually waking up this morning when I moved my left leg and suddenly got a really bad cramp.
  • Instead of waking up in a Las Vegas hotel room to find a baby, the hung-over buddies wake up in a Thai hotel room to find a capuchin monkey. A Towering 'Tree,' Out on a Limb
  • In the early 1980s, a lot of people were waking up to the cultural possibilities and, yes, the aesthetic excitements, of design.
  • He spent two weeks recovering in hospital after waking up partially paralysed. The Sun
  • Waking up to the shocking news, however, most ended up staying home.
  • Waking up and still be motivated is much harder, and it sounds like you did that. Learned so much in such a short time
  • I remember waking up and I had a guy, Clayton Tippett, fanning me, because it was really, really hot, very hot in there, and he was just fanning me for hours.
  • You would have to be developing this now, rather than waking up the day that writs are issued for election and wanting to build this within a couple of weeks.
  • There should be abetter way to start a day than waking up every morning.
  • There are disturbing signs that traditional British organised crime is waking up to the profits and uses of e-crime.
  • Our daughter was just waking up and seeing her face that morning struck a piercing fear in me.
  • Tourism chiefs are waking up to the power of the grey pound, with VisitScotland now predicting the bulk of tourism income will come from the cash-rich over-50s.
  • Your wellbeing chart is waking up via some sociable exercise. The Sun
  • He picked up his cell phone to call her but thought that he would be waking up the whole house.
  • Traditional board games such as Pictionary or Cluedo are great for waking up tired minds and getting the family talking, while charades is sure to get everyone on their feet. Top tips for beating the winter blues
  • She recalled waking up after sleeping amid the fumes. The Sun
  • It was like waking up from a deep sleep, I gradually became more aware of what was going on.
  • He suggests this, for example, in the many places where he speaks of waking up out of our dreams or nightmares.
  • They were just great camping trips in beautiful Yorkshire countryside, waking up to the bleating of sheep and doves cooing. Times, Sunday Times
  • They're up and down, up and down, all night, waking up every three hours and standing at the side of the crib and screaming and acting like they can't get back down again.
  • At this time, most plants are just waking up from their winter slumber and will relish a little trim. Times, Sunday Times
  • Was the press snookered by all this official reassurance, and maybe is just now waking up to reality?
  • I soaped up, waking up slowly, thinking of my life lately.
  • Dare we keep our fingers crossed that people are waking up to what a hollow man he is?
  • The sleeping giant is waking up - and not a moment too soon.
  • While you sleep, there are also forces that push you toward waking up, which I refer to collectively as the “drive to wake.” Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems
  • My clock beeps because I don't like waking up to loud music, or some inane DJ telling me what a wonderful day it is.
  • Episodes frequently occur at sleep onset, termed hypnagogic, or while waking up from sleep, termed hypnopompic (Solomonova). Serendip's Exchange -
  • They were just great camping trips in beautiful Yorkshire countryside, waking up to the bleating of sheep and doves cooing. Times, Sunday Times
  • You were waking up each morning not knowing what was going to hit you. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now, I've overslept - after waking up at 2 a.m. and seriously considering getting up for the day - and I'm all sore.
  • But economists and culture vultures seem to be waking up to the possibility that era of conspicuous consumption may be giving way to a new period of what I call conscientious consumption. Rare-auto breeds
  • I slowly awaken from a deep sleep full of strange dreams, and it comes to my sleep-muddled attention that I definitely should not be waking up right now.
  • I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up.
  • Waking up at 2: 30 without the power to fall back into slumber is disconcerting. Archive 2006-10-01
  • I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up.
  • Happiness is waking up, looking at the clock and finding that you still have two hours left to sleep. Charles M. Schulz 
  • "Alright now," said Neal suddenly waking up and leaping out of bed "what we must do is eat, at once, Louanne rustle around the kitchen see what there is, Jack you and I go downstairs and call Allen, Al you see what you can do straightening out the house."
  • Waking up the next morning, looking up at the grandiose corniced ceilings, marble mantlepiece and antique dressing table, I felt like a slightly less evil Marie Antoinette. Louise Roe: Playing Princess In Paris: My 24 Hours At The Plaza Athenee
  • He'd relate his waking up to the birds singing in the tropics, the dreaded mosquitoes, his excursions to the local market.
  • Now that shrill declamation is wearing decidedly thin with an electorate that is waking up to this overrated suburban solicitor.
  • Whether they're helping their kids with a science project, kissing boo-boos or waking up for midnight feedings, many modern-day dads are deep in the parenting trenches.
  • I was upset with my mother for reminding me of this on a night that I wanted to spend in thrall to the optimism of Christmas – fear not, for behold: I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people – and to the sweet prospect of waking up to tiny pajamaed children filled with glee. Clockwatching | Her Bad Mother
  • He said some symptoms of hexes included prolonged insomnia, frequent nightmares and suddenly waking up, anxiety, sweating during the day and night, and frightening hallucinations.
  • The early inside line is that he's ready to do something that doesn't involve waking up at two in the morning, and Klein's official eulogy does little more than pump the requisite amount of platitudinal sunshine up the ass of the soon-to-be dearly departed without really shedding any light on why Ed is out. Chez Pazienza: How to Lose a Job in 13 Days?
  • He kept waking up unhappy while my husband and I were snuggled under the duvet. Times, Sunday Times
  • I crashed out on Phil's floor for the night and kept waking up because Phil was snoring and talking in his sleep.
  • Waking up and realising it is Monday was the second biggest letdown. The Sun
  • But whatever the motive, international business is at least waking up to the fact that a social conscience can be good for business.
  • He was always witty when waking up from a bender.
  • It was hard to remember what happened when she woke up, but she remembered waking up more than once with a nameless terror on the fringes of her consciousness.
  • She recalls waking up from the anaesthetic eager to see her new face. The Sun
  • Looking out on the yard with full greenery is a superb sense of feeling after waking up early in the morning. Horizontal Space House in Cuneo, Italy
  • She recalls waking up from the anaesthetic eager to see her new face. The Sun
  • We are led to believe that our hospitals are filthy, that waking up during surgery is commonplace, that medicines are routinely maladministered, and that experts will never agree.
  • My mom will be waking up any time now, having traveled 24 hours en voiture, * en avion* and à pied* to arrive home in French Word-A-Day:
  • It was like waking up from a deep sleep, I gradually became more aware of what was going on.
  • The sun is up and it's warm enough to have the windows wide open, and you can watch the world waking up.
  • Waking up to the smell of burning wood every morning with Amma at the chulha, handing out the morning chai to everyone… brushing your teeth could wait.
  • More and more Christians are waking up to the powerful tools that are available to not only reach the young, but to uncage their minds for God, before they drift away from the church.
  • Parents tend to overtreat fevers, even waking up sleeping kids to give them fever-reducing medicine, Farrar said. Doctors: Parents shouldn't fret over kids' fevers
  • There is something addictive about waking up feeling hungry. Times, Sunday Times
  • I think the minority that still thinks they win brownie points by acting snide are dinosaurs crowded in the last warm valley, and are waking up to how out of touch with reality they are. Why Science Fiction Authors Can't Win
  • He wrote most of the songs on the album, once waking up at 6 a. m. with inspiration for lyrics.
  • But forget her famous catchphrase about not waking up for less than $10,000 a day. The Sun
  • So what do you call the athlete who has no intention of waking up at 5 a.m. to train but who still wants to win? Sweating Ad Copy Like 'Mad Men'
  • The only sounds were the crackling of the fire and the buzz of nocturnal insects waking up.
  • it was the waking up he hated most
  • A few Javascript libraries and code-dodos waking up to the fact that Java is too slow (in dev-cycle terms, once you eliminate waterfall and use a prototype/improve/prototype cycle), while Ruby/Python rock does not a revolution (or a major revision number) make. The Cost Effectiveness of Web 2.0 Media
  • I would have slept on the floor but for fear of waking up face to face with a rat.
  • But directors are finally waking up to the idea of him as a serious actor, rather than a Welsh scarecrow fuelled by white-hot energy.
  • The how is waking up every morning, seven days a week, by 6 a.m. to feed the horses, muck out the stalls, brush, ride and bath the horses.
  • I also remember waking up, a calm dykey looking nurse telling me "All good, you wanna call anyone?" and me moving my body to see if there was any pain, but she was right, it was all good. Breaking The Fast

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