roust
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I’d be the guy who falls asleep at 10, waking when authorities shine spotlights and blare Kenny G songs at my house to roust me out to vote.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2024
Pinto, whose family fled Venezuela after her husband, an ex-government soldier, disobeyed orders to roust another family, said she and other migrants understand that their path to economic stability will be long.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2022
Asking the cops to roust them out of the building would have been terrible optics.
From Salon ● May 1, 2022
After police officers arrived, they hurried to roust anyone they could find: The guests staying in nearby hotels.
From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2020
How else would the night watchman know when to roust his fellows out of their comfortable straw beds to begin the day’s devotions?
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Sept. 16, 2019: The Tulsa Police Department finds Crawford’s body and rousts the local Nixonville.
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2019
He rousts past Coleman and lays back for Krychowiak, arriving on the edge of the box to thunk wide.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2015
But truly the word, "Woman's Suffrage," rousts him up as quick as a mouse duz a drowsy cat, so, sez he, "I can't let you go, Samantha, into any such dangerous and onwomanly affair."
From Samantha on the Woman Question by Marietta Holley
I tell you, when anybody gets into political life, ambition rousts up in 'em: path-master don't satisfy me.
From Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician by Marietta Holley
Eastern on July 20, bleary-eyed kids were rousted from their beds so they could tell their grandchildren they witnessed an epic event.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
SPANAWAY, Pierce County — Shortly after 5 a.m. on Christmas Day, Kathryn Henkel and her family were rousted by an unfamiliar quiet, a signal something was wrong.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2022
One man was even rousted from sleep at 6 a.m., with helicopters circling overhead, and taken to jail in his underwear.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2022
One of the men rousted by the officers went up to the platform.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
He rousted about the empty drawers of his adopted desk for matches or a lighter, but he could find nothing.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
Since then, a new mayor has accelerated the pace of rousting encampments.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2022
“We’re not going to solve anything by rousting people, but rather by dealing with it by creating a solution.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2018
The years of pounding London’s streets and rousting out its ghosts are gone.
From The Guardian ● May 20, 2017
Few authorities would want to be in a position of rousting a battered, 64-year-old man from his wheelchair.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2016
I tried rousting them by leaning into them and whispering, “Velia, Delia, wake up. Wake up girls,” but they were out cold, so I closed my eyes and prayed.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
