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

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

From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2022

For 19 days, she evaded the men who came with poles and nets and ropes, and a helicopter that thwapped its rotor blades at the water to roust her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2021

I roust the older kids to get out of bed.

From New York Times ● May 29, 2020

"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

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

Thousands fled Maui after the fires rousted them from their resort hotels and sent them scrambling from their sun chairs on Tuesday.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

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

They were evicted from the boarding house two days later, and had to find a bridge to sleep under, but were soon rousted by the stadwatch.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo

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

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2022

“On more than one occasion, I have gone down to the police who are stopping and rousting the kids around Washington Prep because the kids are leaving after 7 o’clock,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2021

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

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