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 that people have nowhere else to go.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2022

Asking the cops to roust them out of the building would have been terrible optics.

From Salon ● May 1, 2022

"As to Dagmer, the Cleftjaw is gone to Old Wyk at your father's behest, to roust the Stonehouses and the Drumms."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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 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

Inside I found a number of my colleagues who had been similarly rousted out of bed, and over the course of the night, more arrived; by morning we totaled forty in all.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

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

"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

The years of pounding London’s streets and rousting out its ghosts are gone.

From The Guardian ● May 20, 2017

Normally the girl woke in a whirlwind, rousting awake all who were near.

From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill