woken

[ woh-kuhn ]

verb

1. a past participle of wake ¹.

woken

/ ˈwəʊkən /

verb

1. a past participle of wake 1

Example Sentences

Cuomo said that passengers were woken up about an hour into the flight when the aircraft began to bounce.

From The Daily Beast

It is the moment when we are woken from our routine lives by a whisper or explosion, either of which demands ‘Why?’

From The Daily Beast

She kept resisting the command only to be woken up by it yet again.

From The Daily Beast

Emanuel recalls reading to his children and falling asleep before they did, only to be woken by a late night phone call.

From The Daily Beast

For a brief moment during the 2011–12 protests it seemed as if Navalny had woken Moscow up.

From The Daily Beast

She was the Sleeping Beauty in the wood, who had woken up and remembered nothing, and could never recover from the long trance.

From Project Gutenberg

The French of the Renaissance were woken suddenly, but as they started they recognized the face and the hand of the awakener.

From Project Gutenberg

As he lay he heard again the noise which had woken him—the trotting of several horses, and the voices of men riding by the house.

From Project Gutenberg

Old Mrs. Paley, having woken hungry but without her spectacles, was summoning her maid to find the biscuit-box.

From Project Gutenberg

The latter had to keep a light burning and was woken several times in the night by John, who could not sleep.

From Project Gutenberg