- present participle of arouse.
arousing
Example Sentences
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Arousing suspicion from others was Niemann’s adroit counter after Carlsen made a relatively unusual opening.
From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2022
Arousing the worst facets of American emotionalism is another.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Arousing Amateur Lippmann's well-bred scorn were the feverish efforts of other sleuths to solve the case by strong-arm methods.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Arousing the house would create an alarm, and if Harriet were not there—of which in her heart she was already assured—it would only set the people within talking about her.
From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) by Robinson, Frederick William
Arousing the natural hostility of the nobility and higher clergy, he was soon dismissed, and the reforms he had proposed were abandoned by the King.
From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson