rouse
Example Sentences
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Who needs one when your smartphone can rouse you from sleep?
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
However, if the U.S. bats do not rouse from their slumber, the championship game will be a game the Americans curse forever.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
The 40-year-old Wawrinka must try and rouse himself on his Australian Open farewell after a gruelling five-set win in round two.
From Barron's • Jan. 24, 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
“Perhaps you’d better rouse yourself, my little lily. There are tablets to be collected, notes to be gathered. You might look under the bed.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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