As she gradually awoke, she found herself paralyzed on her right side from brain injuries, unable to speak or think in a straight line.

Derec awoke gradually; a profound feeling of mental displacement aggravated him during those moments in which his mind hovered in the regions between waking and sleeping.

Day came, all their companions gradually awoke.

M. Helen Cabot gradually awoke as dawn emerged from the winter darkness blanketing Boston, Massachusetts.

When the sylph kissed him while he was asleep, he did not start up as expected but awoke gradually, stirred within his dream.

But such sentiments vanished as musicians gradually awoke to the grandly flattering idea of a "permanent performance" inherent in recording.

As the sun got higher, their sleep became lighter, and so they gradually one by one awoke.

He awoke gradually.

The chateau awoke later, as became its quality, but awoke gradually and surely.

-The fallen sailor shook his head and gradually awoke to the fact that he was aboard a moving ship.