- present participle of rouse.
rousing
Example Sentences
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We are all of us, in short, “Musical Bodies,” the title and subject of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s rousing exhibition celebrating the creative and aesthetic realm where music, art, and global cultures meet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Finally, to bring the day to a close, a senior monk gives a rousing speech, reminding the participants of their duty to procreate, before breaking into the national anthem.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
Comprising over 300 works, spread over two levels of the Grand Palais, “Matisse: 1941-1954” is a rousing reminder that he went on making significant oil-on-canvas works until the early 1950s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
This was seen as a rousing success for Greenspan.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 22, 2026
But a rousing of the stellar fires in N49 is a simpler hypothesis: we are sure there are such things as supernovae.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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