rouse

Example Sentences

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Product designers are coming up with novel ways to rouse deep sleepers that border on diabolical, including clocks that deliver 300-volt electric shocks and donate snoozers’ money to charity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 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 border with Lithuania is in 30 minutes," the assistant shouted to rouse slumbering passengers.

From Barron's • Oct. 29, 2025

He did not sound worried in the slightest; the situation seemed to rouse him to crackling near-manic energy.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick