rouse

Example Sentences

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When it comes to exciting wide men, however, it's hard to look past those elite dribblers who rouse crowds and make full-backs fret.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

It did rouse huge cheers in the room.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2026

There is an overwhelming sense that Scotland's fate on Tuesday does not depend on what the handy Danes do, but what Clarke's team can conjure up and rouse from within themselves.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 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

Ferdinand Barnett did what he could to aid the strikers, publishing an open letter in a Chicago newspaper to rouse community support.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield