roust

I’d be the guy who falls asleep at 10, waking when authorities shine spotlights and blare Kenny G songs at my house to roust me out to vote.

From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2024

Pinto, whose family fled Venezuela after her husband, an ex-government soldier, disobeyed orders to roust another family, said she and other migrants understand that their path to economic stability will be long.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2022

Advocates for the homeless ardently protest efforts to roust the encampments, arguing people have nowhere else to go.

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2022

Advocates for the homeless ardently protest efforts to roust the encampments, arguing that people have nowhere else to go.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2022

How else would the night watchman know when to roust his fellows out of their comfortable straw beds to begin the day’s devotions?

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

Sept. 16, 2019: The Tulsa Police Department finds Crawford’s body and rousts the local Nixonville.

From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2019

He rousts past Coleman and lays back for Krychowiak, arriving on the edge of the box to thunk wide.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 11, 2015

But truly the word, "Woman's Suffrage," rousts him up as quick as a mouse duz a drowsy cat, so, sez he, "I can't let you go, Samantha, into any such dangerous and onwomanly affair."

From Samantha on the Woman Question by Marietta Holley

I tell you, when anybody gets into political life, ambition rousts up in 'em: path-master don't satisfy me.

From Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician by Marietta Holley

Eastern on July 20, bleary-eyed kids were rousted from their beds so they could tell their grandchildren they witnessed an epic event.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

On Father’s Day 2002, two men showed up at the Pattersons’ California home around 4 a.m. and rousted him out of bed.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2022

One of the men rousted by the officers went up to the platform.

From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022

When I was a kid, Richard and Mildred Loving were rousted from their wedding bed by police for the crime of getting married; he was white and she was Black.

From Salon ● Nov. 19, 2021

You couldn’t have rousted Ajax, Father’s prize bird dog, with a shotgun let off a foot in front of his muzzle.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly

Since then, a new mayor has accelerated the pace of rousting encampments.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2022

They described rushing into buildings and rousting residents — “scaring the bejesus” out of at least one of them.

From New York Times ● Dec. 27, 2020

"We're not going to solve anything by rousting people, but rather by dealing with it by creating a solution."

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2018

In July, FBI agents raided his condominium in Alexandria, rousting Manafort and his wife from bed with a search a warrant — a tactic rarely employed in white-collar criminal cases.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2018

I tried rousting them by leaning into them and whispering, “Velia, Delia, wake up. Wake up girls,” but they were out cold, so I closed my eyes and prayed.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall