rouse
Example Sentences
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These alarm clocks have novel ways to rouse deep sleepers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026
Their popularity spread through Europe until, in Victorian tradition, they were used to rouse ladies after fainting spells.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2026
Needless to say, the Scots will need to raise their level to have any hope of ending that 27-year hoodoo, so how does Clarke rouse his team for a seismic camp?
From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025
The US pontiff urged the world to rouse itself from "the fatal lethargy in which we are immersed".
From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025
“Finding them all ineffectual, I attempted to rouse the system by wrapping the whole body...in blankets dipped in warm vinegar.”
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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