rouse

Example Sentences

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It did rouse huge cheers in the room.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2026

Needless to say, the Scots will need to raise their level to have any hope of ending that 27-year hoodoo, so how does Clarke rouse his team for a seismic camp?

From BBC • Nov. 12, 2025

Alice frantically tried to rouse her 80-year-old husband, then raced downstairs to the lobby in her bathrobe, shouting for help.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025

"The border with Lithuania is in 30 minutes," the assistant shouted to rouse slumbering passengers.

From Barron's • Oct. 29, 2025

For a moment Sam thought that he was trying to rouse Frodo; then he saw that it was not so.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien