Explore Woken through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Woken meaning
past participle of wake
Using Woken
- The main meaning on this page is: past participle of wake
- In the example corpus, woken often appears in combinations such as: woken up, was woken, had woken.
Context around Woken
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 11 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Woken
- In this selection, "woken" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ever, reportedly and getting stand out and add context to how "woken" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after being woken up compared and and getting woken up every. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "woken" sits close to words such as abd, affectionate and aiden, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with woken
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Matteo was woken up from his drunken haze. (8 words)
He seems to have just woken up from hibernation. (9 words)
Households across Glasgow have woken up to no water supply this morning. (12 words)
In the early hours of Friday morning Ukraine was woken by air raid sirens blaring across the country and a city in the south was bombed 17 times in under an hour which was the “largest number” since the start of the war. (43 words)
During the trial’s opening submissions on Tuesday (11 April), the prosecutor said Mr Vella’s friend had been asleep at their home when he was woken up by a loud noise, then Ms Vella started banging on his door. (40 words)
A 10-year-old Australian boy who was critically injured two weeks ago when two helicopters collided, killing four people, had woken from a coma in hospital and held his father’s hand, a family priest said. (37 words)
Have you ever woken up feeling a bit out of sorts and wondered if you unknowingly went for a midnight stroll? (21 words)
Example sentences (20)
A 10-year-old Australian boy who was critically injured two weeks ago when two helicopters collided, killing four people, had woken from a coma in hospital and held his father’s hand, a family priest said.
According to police, the man and his family were asleep at home when they were woken up by two loud noises.
A security guard at the west London mansion was reportedly woken by an alarm in the early hours one morning but the burglar quickly fled the scene.
At last, the State Archaeology Department has woken up to this fact and has decided to replace the old projectors with new ones as well as rectify the sound system and take measures to ensure proper synchronisation.
During the trial’s opening submissions on Tuesday (11 April), the prosecutor said Mr Vella’s friend had been asleep at their home when he was woken up by a loud noise, then Ms Vella started banging on his door.
Fellow Strictly judge Craig Revel Horwood said: 'I've just woken up to the sad news that my gorgeous colleague and dear friend Len Goodman has passed away.
Four decades ago, the couple had woken up one freezing morning when the ground was covered by 33 inches of snow and the mercury was 10 degrees below zero.
Have you ever woken up feeling a bit out of sorts and wondered if you unknowingly went for a midnight stroll?
Her son, Carl Carter, remembers being woken by the doorbell at 4 a.m. on the Tuesday detectives found her body.
He seems to have just woken up from hibernation.
Households across Glasgow have woken up to no water supply this morning.
Hull residents were woken up to the sound of bellowing thunder in the early hours of this morning, as storms formed over the area.
If you fly Korea Air, you can use these stickers to indicate if you'd like to be woken up if you fall asleep.
If you've ever woken up from a with dry and itchy eyes, you've experienced how a lack of quality sleep can impact your eye health, and science backs that up.
In the early hours of Friday morning Ukraine was woken by air raid sirens blaring across the country and a city in the south was bombed 17 times in under an hour which was the “largest number” since the start of the war.
It’s like trying to sleep and getting woken up every hour.
I wouldn’t have been coming home that late at night and even if I had I never would have woken her up.
Josh Gad and Chance The Rapper were among the celebrities woken up by a powerful earthquake in California in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Matteo was woken up from his drunken haze.
Men also find it easier to get back to sleep, with seven in ten grabbing a good night's kip after being woken up, compared with just 44 per cent of women.
Common combinations with woken
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- woken up 120×
- was woken 28×
- had woken 19×
- woken by 17×
- have woken 17×
- were woken 14×
- be woken 12×
- has woken 11×
- being woken 10×
- just woken 8×