rouse

Example Sentences

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When it comes to exciting wide men, however, it's hard to look past those elite dribblers who rouse crowds and make full-backs fret.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Product designers are coming up with novel ways to rouse deep sleepers that border on diabolical, including clocks that deliver 300-volt electric shocks and donate snoozers’ money to charity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

There is an overwhelming sense that Scotland's fate on Tuesday does not depend on what the handy Danes do, but what Clarke's team can conjure up and rouse from within themselves.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2025

The US pontiff urged the world to rouse itself from "the fatal lethargy in which we are immersed".

From Barron's • Oct. 16, 2025

But it didn’t seem to take much evidence to rouse these people’s suspicions.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare