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Example sentences for: waking

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"This dense, mesmerizing novel will leave readers stunned, as if waking from a horrific sunburnt daydream," pronounces Gillian Flynn of Entertainment Weekly . Says Time 's John Skow of the "quirky trilogy": "a reader might conclude: brilliant, obsessive, panoramic--and two novels too many."
Time reports on a new study showing that kids have less free time than ever before: They spend most of their waking hours on school, homework, and organized sports.
I imagine Clark waking to the sound of skyspatter on the morning of Nov. 16 and thinking: "I can't believe this shit."
On the LAT op-ed page, columnist Richard Reeves digs up a Ben Franklin-style memo Nixon wrote to himself, that he violated with just about every waking breath: "Need to be good to do good.
This should be no surprise since the EgyptAir crash permeated my waking yesterday.