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

After police officers arrived, they hurried to roust anyone they could find: The guests staying in nearby hotels.

From New York Times ● Dec. 25, 2020

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

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

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

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

Just when they have found a welcoming home, these wandering warriors may be on the verge of getting rousted again.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

There is a strong chance that the quiet English degree-bearer in your life has already read the piece by Nathan Heller, who rousted several bewildering quotes from top-level Harvard academics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2023

SPANAWAY, Pierce County — Shortly after 5 a.m. on Christmas Day, Kathryn Henkel and her family were rousted by an unfamiliar quiet, a signal something was wrong.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 30, 2022

Though the janitors in Commons rousted me every night at closing time, I doubt they ever realized they spoke to the same boy twice.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

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

"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

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

From The Guardian ● May 20, 2017

“Why on earth are you rousting me at this insane hour? Some of us are trying to sleep.”

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