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
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
"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
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
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
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
Since then, a new mayor has accelerated the pace of rousting encampments.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 17, 2022
The years of pounding London’s streets and rousting out its ghosts are gone.
From The Guardian ● May 20, 2017
I’ll head back to Monterey later this summer to see if the bulldozers have begun rousting the birds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2016
It is not as if police departments were ignoring inner-city communities before the practice of rousting suspects on drug corners was known by a fancy buzzword.
From Washington Post ● May 4, 2015
“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
