Examples of “ake” in a Sentence

adv Forever; continually. (archaic or dialectal)

• Ake, ake, ake," said Von Tempsky, weary over the camp-fire. "Has there been anything like it since the days of the old Greeks? What madness makes you kill such men when you may want them to fight for you some day? — Edith J. Lyttleton, G. B. Lancaster (1938)
• The old ballad promises the lovers will be together ake.
• One day Maui visited his parents to tell them of his latest plan — he wished to conquer his powerful enemy Hine-nui-te-po so that the Night might die and man would live forever: ake, ake, ake! — Queenie Rikihana, Paki Waitara: Myths & Legends of the Māori (1997)
• That was the time when the great wish grew in the heart of Maui, the wish to conquer his powerful enemy Hine-nui-te-po, that Night might die and man may live for ever: ake, ake, ake!—yes, it was his great wish. — Wilhelm Dittmer, Te Tohunga: The Ancient Legends and Traditions of the Maoris (1907)