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Example sentences for: waking

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He presented himself as a man of science but actually he was a "crypto-reformer who spent his every waking hour attempting to change the sexual mores and sex offender laws of the United States."
Movie -- Waking Ned Devine ;
"US commentators are waking up to the fact that the [European Union] contains an important anti-American component.
The story of his life and of his art from that point forward is the story of these attenuated relationships, lived out on two planes at once, like waking dreams.
I had to go to the bathroom in the early dawn and was torn about whether to risk waking her with the noise of the flush or protecting the silence (and trying to catch up with it in the morning, before she did).