roust
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The only thing that could roust me from my peaceful slumber was the most grotesque vision imaginable: an undulating river of red lights in front of me.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2024
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
She didn’t roust a quorum of designers from their set ways.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2022
Advocates for the homeless ardently protest efforts to roust the encampments, arguing people have nowhere else to go.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2022
“What will we do once we catch him? I’ve been teaching myself to pinkie whistle. I might be able to roust someone up to help us.”
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
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
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 Holley, Marietta
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 Holley, Marietta
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 man was even rousted from sleep at 6 a.m., with helicopters circling overhead, and taken to jail in his underwear.
From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2022
One of the men rousted by the officers went up to the platform.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2022
He rousted about the empty drawers of his adopted desk for matches or a lighter, but he could find nothing.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
In voting unanimously last week for ambassadors, Sound Transit’s governing board shunned other tactics ranging from eliminating fares to rousting people off trains for nonpayment to installing station turnstiles that require a pass or ticket.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 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
Six o’clock already, I was just rousting offspring from bed, Then I stopped to check my email and just stood there shaking my head.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2019
The years of pounding London’s streets and rousting out its ghosts are gone.
From The Guardian ● May 20, 2017
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
