arouse

Example Sentences

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They may arouse the ire of politicians and the public, but they also do much that is useful.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025

Hwang uses it to fill time and arouse suspicion, but there is little narrative heft from this plotline until the finale.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2024

The three were charged with carrying or displaying an article to arouse reasonable suspicion that they were supporters of banned organisation Hamas.

From BBC • Feb. 13, 2024

The number suggests that the fraudster found a way to generate listens for the song, but not at numbers that would arouse suspicion.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2024

He stopped for an instant in front of the chestnut tree and once again he saw that the empty space before him did not arouse an affection either.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez