roust
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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
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
A roust allowed Chandler to replenish his jars.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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
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
It's getting increasingly difficult to find a place to sleep for the night without being rousted by police.
From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2022
That same month, he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after cops rousted him at 3:45 in the morning as he slept on a walkway between his studio and an adjoining building.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2021
While Hamlet rousted with the younger boys, with Horatio he would converse seriously.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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
“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
